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| India-Pakistan |
| 'Suicide bomber targeted cops' |
| 2007-01-29 |
| Police officials, who were injured in Saturday’s Peshawar blast, said on Sunday that the attack was a “target killing of senior police officials”. Peshawar Police Chief Malik Saad and DSP Raziq Khan were among the 15 people killed in the attack. Three injured policemen, including Muzzamil and Zahid Hussain, told Daily Times at Lady Reading Hospital that they saw an unidentified man wearing a shawl blow himself up among a police convoy that was deployed for a Muharram procession in a narrow street of Dalgaran Bazaar, near Qissa Khawani. “The suicide attacker moved so quickly into the police convoy that police officials did not notice whether he had a beard or not,” said the injured cops. Inspector General of NWFP Police Muhammad Shareef Virk also described the attack as a “target killing of police officials”. Nadeem Khan, a local, told Daily Times, “We condemn the attack that killed police officials who were trustworthy and brave.” He said the blast was so powerful that blood and flesh were found on an outside wall of the fifth storey of a building. Some local nazims, including one from a minority, branded the attack a “failed attempt at sectarian violence”. “The suicide attacker’s target was Najmul Hassan Kararvi Imambargah in Dalgaran Bazaar, where Shias had gathered for a Muharram procession that was supposed to be taken out 30 minutes after the blast,” Union Council Nazim Haidri and a minority councillor told Daily Times. Dr Riaz confirmed that 15 people died in the blast. Riaz said the blast also killed three Shias. He said that of the 19 indoor patients, 17 were police officials. |
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