Pakistan blasts kill 125

A string of bombings in Pakistan including a twin suicide attack on a snooker hall used by Shiite Muslims has left 125 people dead, in one of the nation’s deadliest days in years.

At least 82 people were killed and 121 wounded Thursday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the crowded snooker club in an area of the southwestern city of Quetta dominated by the Shiite community, a police officer said. It was also the deadliest attack in Pakistan since twin suicide bombers killed 98 people outside a police training centre in the northwestern town of Shabqadar on May 13, 2011 -- shortly after US troops killed Osama bin Laden.

AFP