Mehmood Khan, Shehzad Ahmed

The two cameramen, Shehzad Ahmed and Mehmood Khan, were among at least 70 people killed in a bomb blast at a civil hospital in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan.

The blast went off at the gate of the hospital during the mourning of Bilal Anwar Kasi, the President of the Baluchistan Bar Association, who had been shot dead earlier in the day. 30-year-old Shahzad Ahmed, a cameraman with Aaj TV and 26-year-old year old Dawn News cameraman Mehmood Khan were at the hospital to cover the event. Another reporter for Dunya News, Fareed Ullah, was seriously injured.

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