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| Twelve killed in Dir suicide attack |
| 2009-12-19 |
| [Dawn] Twelve people, two children and a woman among them, were killed and 28 others injured when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden pick-up in front of a mosque adjacent to the district police headquarters in the Lower Dir town soon after Friday prayers.Five vehicles parked in the area were destroyed. Maidan operational commander Col Nadeem Mirza told reporters that it was a suicide attack and target was the mosque where most security personnel offered prayers. Bodies were taken to the DHQ hospital in Timergara and six of the dead were identified as Imran, Israr, Shakeel, Hayat, Anwar and Khalil. The condition of some of the injured people was said to be critical. According to witnesses, the double-cabin pick-up sped towards the mosque and exploded near its gate. They said most of the victims were worshippers coming out of the mosque. Abdullah, an eyewitness, said that causalities would have been higher had the attack taken place five minutes later because people had just started coming out of the mosque and most of the worshippers were still inside.A police official said two of his colleagues had been killed and eight injured, including DSP Shah Wazir and DSP Sher Hussain. An emergency was declared by the district authorities and hospital administration and appeals were made on loud speakers for blood donation. Malakand DIG Muhammad Idrees held meetings with DPO Mumtaz Zarin and DCO Ghulam Muhammad. Two unidentified bodies found at the blast site were believed to be of the suicide bombers. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 No. DUMBAS. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-12-19 12:28 |
| #1 a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden pick-up in front of a mosque Mossad? RAW? CIA? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-19 04:35 |