The women's university in Pakistan has been shut down because of bomb attacks

YEREVAN, JUNE 17, ARMENPRESS: In the first incident a bomb on a university bus killed 14 women. Gunmen then killed 11 when they laid siege to the hospital treating the wounded.

Sardar Bahadur Khan University is the only all-female university in troubled Balochistan province, reports “Armenpress” calling BBC.

The site of the five-hour gun battle that unfolded after the bus bombing, the sprawling Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta, has also been closed indefinitely.

An extremist Sunni group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has said it carried out both attacks. A spokesperson for the group said a female suicide bomber had been used to target the university students.

Although police now say they have found the severed head of a woman from the scene, they say the investigation is continuing to see if this really was a suicide attack.

Saturday's bloodshed began when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying students at Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University.

Quetta, a city of 900,000 people in the south-west of the country, has long been troubled by violence mainly targeting the Shia Muslim minority, often claimed by groups such as Laskar-e-Jhangvi.