KARACHI, Pakistan News: As many as ten people were killed in a severe blast that rocked the entrance of a hospital’s emergency ward where the wounded of a deadly suicide attack occurred an hour before were being treated.

Near 12 dead bodies and 50 wounded of a suicide attack of today’s noon on a bus carrying Shiite mourners to Chehlum procession had been rushed to the emergency ward of Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center. Hundreds of victims’ attendees, relatives and media persons were gathered outside the JPMC’s emergency ward when the blast occurred just opposite the ward.

The blast which apparently occurred in a motorcycle was as severe as it shattered all the windowpanes of the hospital and damaged many of the parked ambulances, cars and motorcycles and other installations.

Dozens of people have also been injured in the attack and were rushed to other medical facilities, including Civil, Liaquat National and Aga Khan hospitals, as the emergency of JPMC – that was already filled to capacity with the victims of noon’s attack – was also damaged in the blast.

Security has further been beefed up at the blast site, the channel added.
[last updated at 5:16 p.m.]

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Dozens injured in Karachi hospital blast

KARACHI: Casualties have been feared in a severe blast that rocked the main gate of Jinnah Hospital’s emergency ward where the wounded of a deadly suicide attack occurred hour before were being treated.
Near 12 dead bodies and 50 wounded of an earlier suicide attack on a bus carrying Shiite mourners to Chehlum procession have been rushed to the emergency ward of Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center where hundreds of their attendees, relatives and media persons were gathered.

The blast which apparently occurred in an ambulance was as severe as it shattered all the windowpanes of the hospital and damaged many of the parked ambulances, cars and motorcycles and other installations.

Dozens of people have been injured in the attack and were being rushed to other medical facilities, including Civil, Liaquat National and Aga Khan hospitals, as the emergency of JPMC is already filled to capacity with the victims of noon’s blast.

India: Indian Generals Guilty of Rs 290-crore Scam, In one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit the Indian Army; now it’s clear that three top generals were involved.
The case involves 70 acres of land, owned by the Army, in Siliguri in North Bengal. An army inquiry has found that the three generals colluded to lease this land to a group of businessmen for a project worth 290 crore. The same project had been rejected by their predecessors on security grounds, pointing out that any building on this land would overlook helipads and other sensitive army installations.
The biggest offender is Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash, the Military Secretary, one of the eight Principal Staff Officers at Army Headquarters. The court of inquiry says he took undue interest in the Siliguri project, possibly because of old links with businessman Dilip Agarwal. Prakash then pressured the then-Commander of the 33 Corps, Lieutenant General PK Rath to clear the 70-acre. And then there’s Lieutenant General Ramesh Halgali. At the time of the scam, he was a Major General, and deputy to Rath. He’s been found guilty on administrative grounds – not giving his boss the correct advice.
None of them faces any punishment yet as this was only a court of inquiry. The Army Headquarters and Ministry of Defence will have to take a final call whether one or more of them could face a court martial once the report reaches Delhi from the Eastern Command.