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Pakistan raises death toll to 14 in Taliban roadside bombing
[STARTRIBUNE] A roadside kaboom targeting a minivan in Pakistain's northwestern tribal region on Tuesday killed 14 people, a local official said, raising an earlier reported corpse count of nine killed. The attack was claimed by a breakaway Taliban...Arabic for students... faction. The blast destroyed the van travelling through a minority Shiite region of the Kurram tribal area, which borders Afghanistan, said Arif Khan, a tribal administration official in the town of Parachinar. The area has long been the scene of sectarian violence. Five women and four children were among the 14 killed, while 10 people were maimed in the kaboom. With few adequate medical facilities in the area, a Mighty Pak Army helicopter evacuated the maimed to a nearby military hospital. Jamat-ul-Ahrar, a breakaway Taliban faction, said it was behind the attack on the Shiites. Pak Taliban and other Sunni myrmidon groups often target minority Shiites whom they consider to be heretics. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group has also claimed several recent attacks in the country. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-26 |
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