Twin Suicide Bombers Attack Church in Pakistan’s Quetta Ahead of Christmas, Killing Eight

Twin Suicide Bombers Attack Church in Pakistan’s Quetta Ahead of Christmas, Killing Eight
Policemen guide people after gunmen attacked the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, Pakistan December 17, 2017. Reuters/Naseer Ahmed
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QUETTA/ISLAMABAD—Two suicide bombers attacked a packed Methodist church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding up to 45 before one of them blew himself up and police killed the other, officials said.

The gunmen wearing explosives-filled vests stormed the church in Quetta city when Sunday services had just opened, exploding a suicide vest and shooting at the Christian worshippers, said Sarfraz Bugti, the home minister of Baluchistan province.