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Pakistan bomb attack 'revenge for Bin Laden
The Pakistani Taliban said today it carried out the twin blasts at a Frontier Corps training centre that killed at least 69 people, nearly all of them recruits, to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.The attack is the bloodiest in Pakistan since the US raid that killed the al-Qa'ida chief on 2 May. Ahsanullah Ahsan, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, told The Associated Press in a phone call that its fighters conducted the attack on the Frontier Constabulary in Shabqadar in retaliation for Bin Laden's death. A suicide bomber detonated at least one of the blasts at the main gate of the centre for the Frontier Constabulary, a poorly equipped, but front-line force in Pakistan's battle against al-Qa'ida and allied Islamist groups close to the Afghan border. Like other branches of Pakistan security forces, it has received US funding. Dozens of people were wounded, said police official Nisar Khan. He said a suicide bomber, a man in his late teens or early 20s, set off one blast. Many recruits were boarding vehicles to go home for a short break at the end of a recent training session. A vegetable seller at the site said some recruits were sitting in white minivans and others were loading luggage on top of the vehicles. "There was a big blast," he said. "I saw smoke, blood and body pieces all around." Posted by: tipper 2011-05-13 |
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