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| 50 dead, 120 maimed in Mohmand double kaboom |
| 2010-12-07 |
| (KUNA) -- More than fifty people, including pro-government tribal elders, were killed while over 120 others were maimed in two suicide kabooms afternoon in Pak bordering tribal agency of Mohamand, said officials Monday Both of the kabooms took place inside the office of the agencys Political Agent in Ghalnai district. Security sources told KUNA that a delegation of pro-government tribal elders and members of tribal peace committee was inside the office for a meeting with the political administration when the kabooms took place. Two jacket wallahs, camouflaged in government uniforms, arrived at the office on a cycle of violence. A local senior government official Amjad Ali Khan talking to newsmen, telecasted live on local news channels, said that the first bomber was stopped at the main entrance gate by the guards. When people gathered around them, he said, the bomber went kaboom!". Only few seconds later, he said further. another jacket wallah went kaboom!himself up. Amjad Khan said that the second kaboom inflicted more casualties. The Information Minister of northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, said that the kabooms killed more than fifty people and maimed over 120 others. Security sources said that the killed included at least four tribal elders and peace committee members. They said it was a huge kaboom that has badly damaged the Ghalnai headquarters, where the political agents office is located. Sources feared further rise in the corpse count as several of the maimed were at death's door. The kabooms have come as the military is preparing to launch a fresh offensive in North Wazoo tribal agency next month and the displaced people have started returning to South Wazoo, Bajaur and Orakzai tribal agencies. |
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