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| Pak Taliban claims responsibility for Mosque suicide attack |
| 2015-01-11 |
| [FIRSTPOST] A splinter group of Pak Taliban on Saturday grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom on a Shia Mosque in garrison city of Rawalpindi. A Pak police officer and local residents gather next to a damage cycle of violence at the site of a suicide kaboom in Rawalpindi, Pakistain. PTIA Pak police officer and local residents gather next to a damage cycle of violence at the site of a suicide kaboom in Rawalpindi, Pakistain. PTI The Jamatul Ahrar faction, which parted ways with the main Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) last year, said that it orchestrated the attack on the Mosque-cum-community centre last night in which eight people were killed and 16 injured. "We claim responsibility for the attack on the Rawalpindi Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... and we will continue such attacks in future," the group's front man Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... claimed in a message sent to media houses. The bomber attacked the the Mosque-cum-community centre at about 9.30 PM last night when a religious congregation was on in densely populated Chittian Hatian area of the city. The attacker came on a cycle of violence and tried to enter the compound but set off the bomb near the gate when he was stopped by volunteers deployed at the entrance. Investigations are on, but no arrest has been made so far. |
| Posted by:Fred |