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| Car bomb rips through Peshawar; 11 dead |
| 2012-09-01 |
| [Dawn] A powerful car boom destroyed a market in northwestern Pakistain on Friday, killing at least 11 people, police said. The kaboom in Matni bazaar near the city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar injured another 20 people and damaged 30 shops, senior police official Abdul Sattar said. Khan said the dead and maimed had been transported to a hospital, and some of the injured were listed in a critical condition. No one grabbed credit for the attack. Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar condemned the attack, saying forces of Evil had killed innocent people by detonating the bomb in a crowded bazar. "Such attacks cannot deter our resolve in the fight against terrorism," he said. Peshawar has witnessed scores of such attacks, most blamed on Pak Taliban against whom the military has launched several offensives in recent years. Local tribal elders have assisted the military in its campaigns. |
| Posted by:Fred |