In Pakistan, Angry Mob Of Lawyers Attacks Hospital, Causing Deaths Of 3 Patients

At least three patients died on Wednesday after hundreds of lawyers besieged a cardiac hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, for hours — attacking doctors, guards and other staff and setting several vehicles ablaze, officials said.

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The origins of the clash are not entirely clear, but it seems to stem from a scuffle last month between doctors and a lawyer that was captured on surveillance video. Since then, lawyers have been demanding some kind of action against the doctors, and on Wednesday that culminated in the brutal attack.

Reuters reported, "lawyers were particularly angry about the doctors disseminating a mobile phone video on social media showing the beating" of a lawyer by doctors after he refused to wait in line.

"Three patients, including an elderly woman, died after doctors failed to provide them timely treatment and remained engaged in averting the assault," Punjab Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid said at a televised news conference, AFP reported.

"Due to the thrashing of doctors going on, the staff fled the scene," Rashid said, adding that it was their abandonment that led to the fatalities.

"It could not have been more shameful than this. I regret that they did not even pause to think about what they were doing. They were so enraged that all reasoning had just left them," she said, referring to the mob.

Members of the mob, dressed primarily in dark suits, white shirts and black ties, and armed with sticks, beat hospital employees, damaged hospital equipment and smashed the doors of emergency theaters. Some fired gunshots, torched hospital and police vehicles and blocked the entry of arriving ambulances. According to some reports, it took police at least a couple of hours to respond to the chaos that erupted after a protest outside the Punjab Institute of Cardiology turned violent.

Some patients were transferred out of the hospital as angry lawyers vandalized the facility.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/787109476/in-pakistan-angry-mob-of-lawyers-attack-hospital-causing-deaths-of-3-patients

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:yee haw:

In Pakistan, Angry Mob Of Lawyers Attacks Hospital, Causing Deaths Of 3 Patients

In Pakistan, Angry Mob Of Lawyers Attacks Hospital, Causing Deaths Of 3 Patients

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