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At least 12 people have been killed, and up to 40 wounded, in an attack on a hospital in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, local officials and media say.
At least three armed men
attacked the hospital on Monday, taking several patients hostage, a senior doctor told the Reuters news agency.
“They barged into the hospital building and opened indiscriminate fire,” Javed Ikram, chief executive of Jinnah hospital, said.
“As a result, 12 people were killed. Most of them were police officials. Some hospital guards and attendants were also killed,” he said.
Police are still battling the attackers.
At least 30 victims and one of the alleged perpetrators of an attack on two mosques of a minority religious community in Lahore were being treated in the hospital when it was attacked.
Eighty-two people were killed in those attacks on Friday, which targeted Ahmadiyya mosques.
