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India-Pakistan
5 killed in JUI madrassa blast
2008-09-20
A bomb exploded at a madrassa (religious school) run by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in Quetta on Friday, killing five people and injuring 10 more. Television footage showed a gaping whole in the external wall around the seminary on the outskirts of the city of Quetta and one partly demolished adjacent room.

"The madrassa people say that someone threw explosives into the madrassa, but we are investigating." But police officer Raja Ishtiaq told AP the blast occurred inside the room and that police were investigating how the bomb got there.
"The madrassa people say that someone threw explosives into the madrassa, but we are investigating," police official Wazir Khan Nasir told Reuters. But police officer Raja Ishtiaq told AP the blast occurred inside the room and that police were investigating how the bomb got there.

The walls had fallen outwards, another police official said, suggesting there could be some explosives inside the room. "We are looking into all possibilities including whether they were preparing some explosives."

A witness who identified himself as Shahbaz Ahmad said students had been scuffling with a man who tried to push past them after they asked him why he wanted to enter the compound. "When they barred his way, he blew himself up," Ahmad, a young man with a black beard, told reporters at a city hospital. Ahmad had no visible wounds, but moments later, he collapsed unconscious and doctors rushed to revive him.

The madrassa is situated about 15 kilometres north of Quetta. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosion so far.

Later on Friday, unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at a police patrol vehicle in Quetta, killing one officer and wounding a policeman and a passer-by, Ishtiaq said. It was unclear if the two incidents were related.

Two men were wounded after unidentified attackers lobbed a hand grenade into a house here at Killi Chashma Achozai area of Balochistan in another incident, police said. The motive behind the incident could not be ascertained. Area police have registered a case.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Who dropped the sacramental dynamite?
Posted by: ed   2008-09-20 10:47  

#2  "including whether they were preparing some explosives." Explosive Device Construction 101, final grades: 5 F-'s
10 F+'s
1 D(for the Drama Queen, probably pissed his pants too)
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident   2008-09-20 08:31  

#1  Ahmad had no visible wounds, but moments later, he collapsed unconscious and doctors rushed to revive him.

Drama queen
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-20 08:09  

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