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==Incident==
[[Advocate#Pakistan|Advocate]] Bilal Anwar Kasi 46<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1279894|title=54 voices: What we lost in the Quetta carnage|last=Dawn.com|date=2016-08-26|access-date=2016-08-26}}</ref>, the president of Balochistan Bar Association, was attacked on the morning of 8 August near Mengal Chowk on Manno Jan Road while leaving his home for his office. His dead body was brought to the Government Hospital for autopsy and many advocates assembled there. A suspected suicide bombing took place inside the hospital, which was followed by gunfire resulting in fatalities and injuries.<ref name="TOI"/><ref name="ET">{{cite news|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/1157855/explosion-firing-heard-near-civil-hospital-quetta/|title=63 killed in blast at Quetta's civil hospital after lawyer's killing|work=The Express Tribune|date=8 August 2016|accessdate=8 August 2016|first=Zafar|last=Baloch|first2=Hasnaat|last2=Malik|first3=Sardar|last3=Sikandar}}</ref>
Police and [[Frontier Corps]] took over the area after the attack and an emergency was declared in hospitals of Quetta.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pak-hospital-blast/article8959074.ece | title=40 killed, 50 injured in Pakistan hospital explosion |place=Karachi | work=[[The Hindu]] | date=8 August 2016 | accessdate=8 August 2016 | author=}}</ref> [[Mobile phone jammer]]s were activated in the hospital area.<ref name="IE8Aug"/> The Bomb Disposal Squad reported that 8 to 9 kilograms of explosives were used in the attack.<ref>{{cite web|author=|url= http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/348229-Suicide-blast-targeting-lawyers-media-men-at-Quet|title= Lawyers, media persons among 70 killed in Quetta hospital blast | publisher=Dunya News |date=8 August 2016 |accessdate=8 August 2016}}</ref> Two journalists, one from ''[[Aaj News]]'' and the other from ''[[Dawn News]]'', died in the Quetta Civil Hospital attack while working.<ref>{{cite web|author=| url= https://www.geo.tv/latest/110974-Aaj-News-journalist-Shahzad-killed-in-Quetta-attack |title= Two journalists killed in Quetta attack | publisher=Geo tv |date=8 August 2016 |accessdate=8 August 2016}}</ref>
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