Naseer Ahmed / Reuters
A paramilitary soldier reacts as he asks civilian to leave the scene of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Thursday.
By Mujib Ahmed and Andrew Mach, NBC News
The death toll from twin bombings on a billiards hall Thursday in southwest Pakistan rose to 69, with at least 160 more injured, according to a senior police official.
Police officer Hamid Shakeel said the bombs went off about 10 minutes apart, The Associated Press reported, with the second blast causing the building to collapse.
Lashkar e Jhangvi, a Sunni Muslim militant organization aligned with al-Qaida, took responsibility for the attack.?
Many of the dead and wounded were Shiite Muslims, officials said; police officers, journalists and rescue workers who responded to the initial explosion were also among the dead, the AP reported.
The pool hall assault in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, was the third terrorist attack of the day in Pakistan.
Earlier, a bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers in a commercial area in Quetta killed 12 people and wounded more than 40 others, Shakeel said, the AP reported.
Elsewhere in Pakistan, a bomb in a crowded Sunni mosque in the northwest city of Mingora killed 22 people and wounded more than 70, said senior police officer Akhtar Hayyat, the AP reported.?
It was one of the country's deadliest days in recent years.
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