Pakistan hospital bomb attack

Police in the Pakistani city of Hyderabad say that 12 people were injured, three critically, when a bomb exploded outside a hospital maternity ward.

The victims are believed to have been patients' relatives who were sitting on a veranda at the Liqat Medical College Hospital when the bomb exploded.

A senior police officer told the BBC that local criminal gangs had carried out what he called a terrorist act, to demonstrate their power by sabotaging the peace in the city.

There have been at least two bomb attacks on buses in Hyderabad in recent months.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service