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| Blast in Peshawar kills at least three |
| 2009-12-06 |
| [Dawn] An accidental blast destroyed a shop in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least three people, officials said, unnerving a city frequently bombed by militants. Police said initially that a bomb had exploded near a fast food restaurant. Hours later two police officers and a local government official said it was an accidental blast. 'We did not find any substance which indicated it was a bomb,' said Peshawar police chief Liaqat Ali Khan. In a reminder of serious security challenges Pakistan faces, militants attacked a mosque near Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi on Friday, killing at least 40 people, including army officers, just a 30-minute drive from Islamabad. Peshawar has been hit the hardest by bombings blamed on militants. Aside from a loss of life, the violence has also had a psychological and financial toll. Standing at the scene of Saturday's blast, where people on the second floor of a burning building pleaded for help, taxi driver Noorzada Khan tried to make sense of all the violence that has kept residents at home and deprived him of business. 'They're professional killers. They're doing all this for money. They must be funded from outside. They cannot run such things alone,' he said. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi condemned the latest wave of violence and said Pakistan's will would not be broken. 'Such reprehensible acts can never defeat our national resolve to fight out terrorism and militancy,' he said in a statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |