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| Suicide blast hits Peshawar police station |
| 2011-05-26 |
| [Al Jazeera] A car boom kaboom has badly damaged a cop shoppe in Pakistain's volatile city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, killing six people and wounding several others, police said. Officials said the blast early on Wednesday all but flattened the cop shoppe. Police said up to 26 people were maimed. The bomber's target appeared to be a building belonging to the police's criminal investigation department, but Mighty Pak Army facilities were also nearby, said Liaquat Ali Khan, a senior police official in the area. Authorities were searching for bodies or survivors in the rubble, he said. Residents said the kaboom rattled windows throughout the city. Television footage showed police and soldiers cordoning off the affected district. The incident occurred about 1km from the US consulate and in the same district where a car boom went kaboom!last week as a US consulate convoy passed by. One man was killed and about a dozen people were maimed, including two US nationals, in that incident. The Pak Taliban told the AFP news agency it was behind Wednesday's suicide kaboom. "We will continue attacks on security forces until an Islamic system is implemented in Pakistain, because the Pak system is un-Islamic," Ehsanhullah Ehsan, a front man for the Pakistain Taliban, told the Rooters news agency, adding the attack was also in Dire Revenge™ for bin Laden's death. A string of attacks in Pakistain have followed the US raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... he's rotten though not quite forgotten... earlier this month. The Pak Taliban vowed Dire Revenge™ and have already claimed three attacks since the May 2 raid. In the most high-profile attack, gunnies stormed a naval base in the city of Bloody Karachi late on Sunday night. At least 13 people were killed and 15 more injured in the firefight that followed. The commander of the naval base was relieved of his duties and replaced, according to a statement from the navy on Wednesday. A committee has been formed to investigate how the gunnies had infiltrated the base. |
| Posted by:Fred |