CALIFORNIA: Search engine giant Google lit candle to show solidarity with the victims of Quetta blast which left 71 people dead and dozens injured on Monday.
According to media reports, worldwide popular search engine paid homage to the blast victims and demonstrated a candle on their Pakistani homepage ‘www.google.com.pk’. When one moves the cursor of the mouse towards the candle, a message appears on the screen:
“In memory of the victims in Quetta”
More than 70 people were killed and scores of others were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Quetta Civil Hospital. A large number of lawyers were present at the time of the attack since the Balochistan Bar Association president Anwar Kasi had been gunned down earlier that morning and his body had been brought to the hospital.
Soon after the carnage, social networking and messaging platform Facebook also activated its ‘Safety Check’ option, which is aimed to let people know whether or not those present at the scene of the incident are safe or not.
Earlier last month, Google also dedicated a doodle in memory of globally renowned Pakistani philanthropist and social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi. The search engine placed a link on its homepage which displayed information about Edhi and his services.
On March 27, the world’s most popular search engine also lit a candle on its Pakistani homepage in memory of all those victims who died in the suicide blast in Lahore.
On March 27, seventy-two persons were killed and more than 300 injured in a suicide attack at Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park.
