(19 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of street and traffic
2. Police officers walking towards camera
3. Various of police officer carrying a child with head injuries to hospital
4. Mother walking past with her injured nine-year-old child
STORYLINE:
A suicide blast outside a hospital in Pakistan's volatile northwest killed at least 26 people and wounded 35 on Tuesday.
The bomb went off in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, outside the emergency gate of a hospital which was crowded with Shiite Muslim mourners, police and government officials said.
The motive for the blast appeared to be sectarian, with the Shiites the apparent targets, said Mohsin Shah, a top district official.
Shah said the attack took place just as dozens of people from the Shiite community had gathered outside the hospital to mourn the death of a Shiite man shot earlier on Tuesday in the centre of the city.
The attack occurred a day after Pervez Musharraf stepped down as Pakistan's president, adding to uncertainty about the new government's approach to tackling extremist violence.
It also came as more killings were reported in a northwest tribal region where military clashes with insurgents have reportedly killed hundreds and spurred threats of militant revenge.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion at Dera Ismail Khan District Hospital.
Dera Ismail Khan lies in an area where tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims run high and where several targeted killings have taken place in recent weeks.
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