ISLAMABAD, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain said on Sunday that the government will take revenge of every drop of the blood of innocent people who lost lives in a recent terrorist attack in the southwestern city of Quetta.
The Islamic States (IS) and a Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at the emergency department of a hospital on August 8 which killed over 70 people and injured nearly 200 others. Most of those killed were senior lawyers who gathered outside the hospital to collect body of a lawyer who was also killed by militants.
"We are shocked at the Quetta terrorist attack and we stand with the bereaved family. Every Pakistani feels the pain. Blood of the innocent people will not go waste. I announce here, the government will take revenge of the blood of the innocent people," Hussain said in his Independence Day address in Islamabad.
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