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| Twin suicide attacks kill 23 in Peshawar, Bannu |
| 2009-09-27 |
| Two suicide attackers on Saturday separately rammed their explosives-laden vehicles into a police station in Bannu and a military-owned commercial bank in Peshawar cantonment, killing at least 23 people and injuring around another 200, officials said. At least 10 people were killed in the attack in Peshawar, while seven, including two policemen, were killed in the assault on the Bannu police station. But a police official in Bannu said 13 people had been killed. Authorities said the death toll could rise as many among the injured were in critical condition. Around 94 people were injured in Peshawar and 64, including 31 policemen, Bannu. NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar joined President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in condemning the blast, calling the attacks "acts of desperate terrorists". Witnesses said police arrested two suspicious men from the site of Peshawar blast, which occurred some 300 metres away from the headquarters of the 11 Corps and the US Consulate in the high-security zone. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the Bannu attack and threatened to unleash bigger attacks on the government to avenge the killing of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone attack last month, AFP reported. "It was a car suicide blast and according to our calculations 100 kilogrammes of explosives were used," Shafqat Malik, bomb disposal squad chief, told reporters at the scene of the Peshawar attack. "The suicide bomber sitting inside the car hurled a grenade and then he detonated himself and the car," Malik said, describing the target as a branch of a bank run by an army welfare trust. TV footage showed volunteers hauling the wounded on to the back of trucks as police tried to evacuate the area, with ambulances inching past onlookers as a young girl limped away with blood spattered on her green dress. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I wonder if the Paks are finally beginning to get why the Afghans have been POed by the type of s%%t? |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-09-27 02:57 |