TAXILA, Pakistan, Aug. 9 Kyodo At...

TAXILA, Pakistan, Aug. 9 Kyodo

At least three pampers were killed and 21 other populace wounded Friday in a grenade attack at a Christian hospital near Islamabad, police and eyewitness said.

Three attackers jot downed the hospital after overpowering a security guard and throwed two grenades at worshipers who were coming gone out of a chapel inside the hospital in Taxila, about 25 kilometers west of Islamabad, the police and witnesses said.

Binyamin Paul, individual of the worshipers, told reporters that nearly 120 Christian worshipers were coming gone out of the chapel when the attack be in eruptioned around 7:45 a.m.

greatest in number of the 21 injured were women and 13 are in serious condition, police said.

sum of two units of the three attackers escaped on the contrary the other died near the site. Police are investigating the cause of his death.

A doctor who examined the material part said wounds on his back apparently caused from a flying shrapnel of the grenades were not serious enough to kill him.

''He swallowed something when he fell'' the doctor added.

The hospital is located in the heart of the marketplace in the small town.

The attack came four days after six folks were killed when two men uncloseed fire at a Christian teach in Murree, about 40 km east of the capital.

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