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| Blast in Charsadda kills 6 police officers, 1 student |
| 2014-01-23 |
| [TRIBUNE.PK] A blast in Charsadda killed six coppers and a 13-year-old student and injured thirteen others on Wednesday. The kaboom took place near a police mobile in Sardheri Bazaar, Express News reported. There were eight coppers in the mobile at the time of the blast. The coppers were on their way to provide security to a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... team. The kaboom was planted in a bicycle which went kaboom!when the police mobile passed by it, Hassan Khan, an official of the Sardehri cop shoppe told The Express Tribune. Police said that up to five kilograms of explosives were used in the bomb, which exploded remotely. The dear departed were identified as head constable, Khawaja Muhammad, driver Azam Khan, constables Kashif, Gul Shah, Wisal and Ikram and the civilian Adnan Khan. Medical superintendent District Headquarters Hospital in Charsadda Muhammad Khan Afridi told The Express Tribune that six dead bodies of coppers and a body of a boy were brought to hospital. Thirteen people injured in the blast were also brought to the hospital, he added further stating that two of the injured coppers, Faridullah and Haseen Jan were at death's door and taken to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and three of the injured were discharged after medical treatment. Some of the injured were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Charsadda while others were taken to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. No one had claim responsibility of the attack till filling this report. Bomb Disposal Unit Charsadda in-charge Kiramat Khan told The Express Tribune that a remote-controlled device was used in the blast along with ball bearings and iron bars. Security forces have cordoned off the area and started a search operation. The funeral ceremony of the victims of the blast was offered at the Police Line, or the police's main office, in Charsadda, on the outskirts of Peshawar. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Chief Minister Pervez Khattak strongly condemned the attack and announced compensation for the victims. He announced Rs 3 million would be given to families of each of the six police personnel, one lac each for the injured personnel, five lacs for the family of the student, and two lacs each for the civilians injured. "Targeting the police force is nothing but aimed at making the public insecure which no government and nation could allow at any cost," he said. Polio Pakistain is one of only three countries in the world where polio is still endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. Militant groups see vaccination campaigns as a cover for espionage, and there are also long-running rumours about polio drops causing infertility. On January 17, the World Health Organization warned that Peshawar was the world's "largest reservoir" of polio. |
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