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| Pakistan suicide attack kills three at press club |
| 2009-12-22 |
| A suicide bomber has killed at least three people outside a club for journalists in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say. A policeman, a Peshawar Press Club worker and a woman passer-by were killed. At least 17 others were wounded, several of them journalists. Peshawar has borne the brunt of recent attacks, which have left scores dead. Pakistan has seen a surge in violence ever since the army began an offensive against the Taliban in Waziristan. Ummm... The offensive in Wazoo was in response to a surge in violence. Remember Baitullah Mehsud? Remember kabooming Benazir?... "It was a suicide attack. The bomber wanted to enter the building. The police official at the gate stopped him and he blew himself up," AFP news agency quoted senior police official Karim Khan as saying. "The guard room outside the gate was badly damaged. Three motorcycles parked inside the compound and one bus on the other side of the road were damaged." He said almost all the windows of the Peshawar Press Club had been shattered. Journalists in Pakistan have been targeted by militants on numerous occasions. Peshawar, near the Afghan border, has been attacked repeatedly since Pakistan sent its troops to fight the Taliban in the tribal region of South Waziristan. |
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