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The Latest: Pakistan raises death toll to 42 in Quetta blast

People help victims of a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. A powerful bomb went off on the grounds of a government-run hospital Monday, killing dozens of people, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
People help victims of a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. A powerful bomb went off on the grounds of a government-run hospital Monday, killing dozens of people, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt) People help victims of a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. A powerful bomb went off on the grounds of a government-run hospital Monday, killing dozens of people, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

By Associated Press 3 min read

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – The Latest on the bombing at a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta (all times local):

12:05 p.m.

Pakistani police have raised the death toll from a hospital bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta and are now saying that there are 42 killed.

No group has immediately claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack.

Senior police official Zahoor Ahmed Afridi says the bomb went off shortly after the body of a prominent lawyer killed earlier in the day was brought to the hospital.