Pakistan protest: Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital

[Mr. Sparkle]

Source: BBC

Three patients died when hundreds of lawyers attacked a hospital in Lahore during a furious dispute with doctors. Video showed the lawyers ransacking wards at the cardiac hospital, beating up staff and smashing equipment. As panic spread, doctors and paramedics hid, leaving patients unattended, including those in a critical state.

Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the lawyers and more than 20 arrests were made. It took more than two hours to restore order, officials said. The lawyers had been protesting over the alleged mistreatment of some of their colleagues by hospital staff last month. But the final trigger for the violence appears to have been a video posted on social media by a doctor on Tuesday night in which he poked fun at the lawyers.

How did the attack unfold?

According to hospital administrators, more than 200 lawyers wielding sticks stormed Lahore's Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) at midday on Wednesday. Hospital officials said the lawyers forced their way past security and split into groups, attacking various departments and wards. Video footage shared on social media showed lawyers - in suits and ties - smashing medical equipment and windows, and beating up staff and officials including Punjab information minister Fayazul Hasan Chauhan who had arrived on the scene to try to restore calm.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50757383

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A headline you never thought you would see!

[msongs]

1. lawyers ransacking and killing people. nothing new about it. nt

[mpcamb]

10. Just a little more directly than usual.

[melm00se]

2. Does "lawyer"

mean something different in Pakistan than it does in the US and UK?

[ToxMarz]

3. Sounds like the Brooks Brothers Riot of 2000

No doubt they were snowflake republican lawyers (or whatever the equivalent is over there).

[ancianita]

4. Pakistan has lawyers? Who knew.

[Marcuse]

5. They didn't even need to chase any ambulances.

[HuskyOffset]

6. Pretty much what happens when rule of law goes out the window

Rampaging lawyers, it's a thing.

[Javaman]

7. "lawyer" in Pakistan isn't what it means here. there, that's a term for a thug or a thief...

oh wait, I guess it is the same here. LOL

[Silver1]

8. What the heck happened to them?

Sounds like mass psychosis!

[christx30]

9. I guess the moral to the story is:

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Or else.

[Eugene]

11. Pakistan protest: Police hunt PM Imran Khan's nephew over deadly hospital riot

Source: BBC

Pakistan protest: Police hunt PM Imran Khan's nephew over deadly hospital riot

13 December 2019

Police in Pakistan say they are seeking to arrest PM Imran Khan's nephew for taking part in a violent protest at a hospital in which three patients died.

Lahore police raided Hassan Niazi's residence and say he may now be hiding.

Mr Niazi was among several hundred lawyers who ransacked a city hospital in a dispute with doctors. Riot police had to be called in to restore order.

Images of lawyers - in suits and ties - assaulting staff and damaging property prompted shock and condemnation.

Photos and videos of Hassan Niazi were widely shared on social media, as people lined up to criticise the lawyers.

Link to tweet

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50779302

[Sapient Donkey]

12. All this because of a single incident that lead to social media shit talking and damaged pride?

That's ridiculous.