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Blast 'showers office with body parts'
A SUICIDE bomber on a motorbike ripped through workers queuing for their salaries near a Pakistan hotel today, killing 20 people as the UN pulled expatriate staff from the northwest of the country.The force of the explosion outside a bank near the four-star Shalimar Hotel in the garrison city of Rawalpindi showered the area with body parts. "We were sitting on the second floor of our office. It was a huge blast,'' Raja Sher Ali, a marketing manager in a local company, said. "Our building shook as if in an earthquake and when we came out there was smoke everywhere and body parts were thrown into our office,'' she said. A surge in militant attacks left more than 300 people dead last month as the military presses a major offensive against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) movement in the tribal belt, infested with Al-0aeda-linked operatives. A senior police official said the suicide bomber drove a motorbike towards the queue of people waiting for their salaries at a bank when he blew up. "The suicide bomber came on a motorcycle and blew up close to people gathered to get salaries. We found parts of a suicide vest and some body parts of the suicide attacker,'' senior police official Aslam Tarin said. "At least 20 people were killed and more than 20 were wounded,'' he added. Posted by: tipper 2009-11-02 |
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