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| India-Pakistan |
| Burqaboomer hits Peshawar, 6 dead |
| 2011-08-12 |
| [Emirates 24/7] A female suicide kaboomer and a handcart bomb targeted Pak police on Thursday. Six people died in the first deadly attacks to hit the northwest during Ramadan, officials said. The city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, where the unrest took place, is on the frontline of a Taliban insurgency and borders Pakistain's lawless tribal belt that Washington calls the global headquarters of Al Qaeda. It was only the third time police have confirmed a woman suicide attacker in the nuclear-armed country of 167 million where Taliban and Al Qaeda linked bombers have killed 4,500 people since 2007, destabilising the government. Dozens were maimed in Thursday's attacks, carried out several hours apart in the Lahori Gate area of Peshawar, a teeming city of 2.5 million, targeting first a police van and secondly a police checkpost. "This was a female jacket wallah aged around 17 or 18 who threw a hand grenade on the police checkpost, 20 metres away from the site of the first blast, and then blew herself up," police official Shafqat Malik told AFP. "Her vest did not explode completely. She was killed and another woman was also killed and three coppers were maimed," Malik said. He said 16 people were admitted with injuries after the second blast, including a 10-year-old boy. Police official Imtiaz Shah confirmed that the other woman was a passer by and had no connection to the woman, believed to have been around 17 years old. Police said four officers and a child were killed earlier when a bomb hidden in a handcart on the roadside, tore through a passing police van carrying 20 personnel at 7:10 am. 18 other people were maimed, said police official Muhammad Faisal. Shattered glass, human flesh, blood and police uniforms littered the area after the bomb went of. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Were they all Moslems? yeah? Noam Chomsky should be informed at once !. He will have the answer. |
| Posted by: de Medici 2011-08-12 08:52 |