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| Blast 'showers office with body parts' |
| 2009-11-02 |
| A SUICIDE bomber on a motorbike ripped through workers queuing for their salaries near a Pakistan hotel today, killing 20 people as the UN pulled expatriate staff from the northwest of the country. The force of the explosion outside a bank near the four-star Shalimar Hotel in the garrison city of Rawalpindi showered the area with body parts. "We were sitting on the second floor of our office. It was a huge blast,'' Raja Sher Ali, a marketing manager in a local company, said. "Our building shook as if in an earthquake and when we came out there was smoke everywhere and body parts were thrown into our office,'' she said. A surge in militant attacks left more than 300 people dead last month as the military presses a major offensive against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) movement in the tribal belt, infested with Al-0aeda-linked operatives. A senior police official said the suicide bomber drove a motorbike towards the queue of people waiting for their salaries at a bank when he blew up. "The suicide bomber came on a motorcycle and blew up close to people gathered to get salaries. We found parts of a suicide vest and some body parts of the suicide attacker,'' senior police official Aslam Tarin said. "At least 20 people were killed and more than 20 were wounded,'' he added. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 A bit late..... dimmit. Final proofreading grade "F" |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-11-02 14:29 |
| #6 ripped through workers queuing for their salaries A bit to fill out that direct deposit form I take it. Queuing up, why does it hate us? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-11-02 14:21 |
| #5 Well, that's one way to prevent run on the banks. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-11-02 14:16 |
| #4 "It's raining men!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-11-02 10:51 |
| #3 Showering with body parts? Yuck! |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2009-11-02 10:49 |
| #2 'showers office with body parts' Well, Islam *is* the Religion of Pieces. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-11-02 10:47 |
| #1 35 now dead, many old pensioners. Monday's blast came as the Pakistan government announced rewards worth $5 million for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of Pakistan Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and more than a dozen other militant leaders. A reward of more than $600,000 each was announced for Hakimullah, who is regarded as violent and brutal, and his top aide Wali-ur-Rehman, believed to be more thoughtful and canny. The same amount was offered for Qari Hussain Mehsud, Hakimullah's cousin who is known as "the mentor of suicide bombers." |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-02 10:29 |