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| Today's Pakaboom: 49 dead in bomb blast at Shiite mosque |
| 2015-01-30 |
| [FOXNEWS] A kaboom destroyed a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistain as worshippers were gathering for Friday prayers, killing 49 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The blast was the deadliest sectarian attack to hit the country in months and comes as Pakistain is already struggling to contain a surging militancy following the horrific Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. school attack that killed 150 people in December. The Sunni murderous Moslem group Jundallah grabbed credit for the attack, which took place in the city of Shikarpur in Sindh province, roughly 310 miles north of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... This area of Pakistain has largely been spared the intense attacks and violence seen over the years in the northwestern tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and also the port city of Karachi, indicating the country's terrorism challenges could extend into new territory. The bodies of 31 people were brought to Shikarpur hospital, said Sain Rakhio Mirani, the deputy inspector general for Shikarpur district where the blast occurred. He said another four people died on the way to a hospital in the nearby city of Sukkur. In a sign of how serious the kaboom was, Dr. Shaukat Ali Memon, who heads the hospital in Shikarpur, appealed on Pakistain's state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? for residents to donate blood for the maimed. Pak television showed area residents and worshippers frantically ferrying the dead and maimed to the hospital. Local media reported that parts of the roof had collapsed on the worshippers, and some people had been trapped inside. Initial reports suggest that it was a bomb planted in the area, Mirani. Fahad Mahsud, a front man for the Sunni murderous Moslem group Jundullah, grabbed credit for the attack in a telephone call to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, but gave no details about how it was carried out. The murderous Moslem group has previously grabbed credit for attacks on Shiites and other religious minorities including a church in the northwestern city of Peshawar in 2013 that killed 85 people. |
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| #1 It's Friday. Allan is pleased. Allan Snackbar! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-01-30 14:51 |