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Twin suicide attack strikes Pakistan university
TWIN suicide blasts have torn through a university campus in Pakistan's capital, killing five people, as the military pursues a major anti-Taliban offensive in the lawless northwest.Today's bombing of Islamabad's International Islamic University was the seventh major militant attack in just over a fortnight and the first since the military launched what officials vowed would be a knockout blow against the Taliban. Two explosions seconds apart rocked a male teaching faculty and women's cafeteria of what is one of the largest Islamic universities in the world, attracting Muslim students from home and abroad. "We are in a state of war. They will make every effort to destabilise the country. These so-called Islamists are enemies of Islam and enemies of Pakistan,'' Interior Minister Rehman Malik said at Islamabad's main hospital. The US embassy in Pakistan said the "vicious attack on a respected Islamic educational institution reveals yet again the cruel and inhuman nature of the terrorists operating against Pakistan and its people''. "Seven people including two suicide bombers are dead, and 29 injured in the two attacks. Among the dead is one female,'' senior city administration official Rana Akbar Hayat said. Doctor Minjahul Siraj, at Islamabad's main hospital, said 22 people were wounded including 16 women. The first blast ripped through the faculty of Islamic jurisprudence used by male students and the second hit a women's cafeteria. Posted by: tipper 2009-10-20 |
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