**At least four people have been killed and several injured as a bomb exploded inside a hospital in the south-west Pakistani city of Quetta, police say.**Gunshots were also heard following the blast at the Civil Hospital. A cameraman for Pakistan’s Samaa TV was among the dead, hospital officials say.
There are unconfirmed reports that the explosion was the result of a suicide attack.
The blast happened at the entrance to the hospital’s emergency ward.
The cameraman was at the hospital covering the aftermath of a fatal shooting of a Shia bank manager. The room was full of the man’s friends and family when the bomb was detonated, said police officials quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
Quetta is the capital of Balochistan - Pakistan’s poorest and most neglected province. There have been several insurgencies by Baloch nationalists over six decades that have been brutally crushed by the military.
Whereas previously Baloch nationalists demanded greater autonomy within the federation of Pakistan, today many Baloch are demanding a separate country for themselves.
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