One of the bloodiest attacks yet

BLASTS \\ The death toll from a series of deadly bombings across Pakistan in the second week of January 2013 rose to 120, Pakistan police reported, making it one of the deadliest month the country has seen in years. Five people who were wounded in twin bombings on a billiards hall died of their wounds around January 10, 2013, said senior police officer Hamid Shakeel from the southern city of Quetta, putting the death toll from that attack at 86. The strike was the worst of three deadly bombings targeting Shiites and soldiers in Quetta, capital of the volatile Baluchistan province, and worshippers at a Sunni mosque in the northwest. The billiards hall bombing, in a Shiite area of the city, started with a suicide attack but was followed by a car bomb minutes later in the same area. Militants often use such staggered bombings as a way to maximise the body count by targeting rescuers.