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| Two killed as bomb hits Pakistani school bus |
| 2010-12-14 |
| These are human guppies, eating their own spawn. [The Nation (Nairobi)] A bomb struck a Pak school bus, killing a mechanic and wounding two children as they were being dropped home after class in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, police said. It was the fifth bombing in Pakistain since last Monday as the nuclear-armed country steps up security for the holy month of Muharram, which typically sees a rise in sectarian tensions and attacks on Shiite Mohammedan religious parades. The kaboom destroyed the congested Bhana Marri area on the outskirts of Peshawar, a city that runs into Pakistain's lawless tribal belt that Washington brands the most dangerous region in the world and an Al-Qaeda hub. Police said initially that the bus driver was killed, but later identified the dead man as a mechanic whose workshop was nearby. The driver was among up to four people treated for injuries after the attack. "My house was nearby and I was standing up to get down when there was a deafening kaboom. I saw a fireball and heard the kaboom. I didn't know what happened after that," said nine-year-old Imam Gulzar. The fourth-grader spoke to AFP at Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, where she was being treated for minor injuries. The windows of the bus from the Islamia Model School -- a fee-paying English-language school -- were punched out in the blast. |
| Posted by:Fred |