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| Bomb Hits UN Office in Pakistan Capital; 4 Killed |
| 2009-10-05 |
| (Bloomberg) -- A suicide bomber at the Pakistan headquarters of the United Nations’ World Food Program killed four people and injured several others, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. A man wearing a bomb under a soldier’s uniform entered the compound after asking the UN guards to let him use a toilet inside, Malik told reporters in Islamabad, the capital, today. It was the deadliest attack in the Pakistani capital since April. The WFP said four of its staffers were confirmed dead. “This is a terrible tragedy for WFP, and for the whole humanitarian community in Pakistan,” WFP Deputy Executive Director Amir Abdulla said in a statement. “These were people working to assist the poor and the vulnerable on the frontlines of hunger in Pakistan.” The explosion ignited a fire in the WFP office and raised a column of smoke over the upscale Islamabad neighborhood where President Asif Ali Zardari has his home only a few blocks away. While no one claimed responsibility for the blast, Malik blamed Pakistan’s Taliban guerrilla movement, which has fought an escalated war this year against army troops in the country’s northwest. “Five days ago there was a meeting of Taliban and they decided to attack cities and towns with suicide bombers,” he said. “There may be a few more attacks in the near future, but I assure you we will finish the remaining terrorists.” |
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