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Suicide bombers attack Pakistani court, killing seven, as wave of violence continues
 [SCMP] At least seven people were killed when multiple Taliban jacket wallahs attacked a court complex in northern Pakistain on Tuesday, the latest in a series of assaults which have raised fears faceless myrmidons are regrouping.One bomber was briefly on the loose inside the busy complex in the Tangi area of Charsadda district but was killed by police some 20 minutes after the attack began, officials said. A second bomber was rubbed out by security forces and a third died when he detonated his vest outside the main gates of the facility in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, according to police. The attack was claimed by the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) faction of the Pak Taliban, which carried out a series of apparently coordinated assaults last week including a powerful kaboom in Lahore which killed 14 people. Earlier this month the group vowed a fresh offensive on targets in Pakistain including the judiciary. "So far seven people have been killed and 15 maimed," Suhail Khalid, district police chief, told AFP, adding that a lawyer was among the dead. The three attackers had opened fire on police and thrown grenades as they tried to battle their way into the complex, Khalid said. "Bomb disposal experts told us that each bomber was wearing 7kg-8kg of explosives," he told news hounds in Charsadda. "Police fought bravely and saved Charsadda from devastation." It was not immediately clear how many people were inside at the time of the attack, but hundreds of people including lawyers, judges and citizens normally attend such district court complexes every day. Lawyers and the judiciary are frequent targets in Pakistain. Among last week’s assaults was a kaboom targeting a van carrying judges in 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. , which killed their driver. Posted by: Fred 2017-02-22 |
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