Monday, September 6, 2010

Pakistan: Suicide attack on police station kills 19 in Lakki Marwat

The attacks by militants linked to al Qaeda and Taliban ended a lull in violence after Pakistan was hit by the worst floods in its history, which have affected nearly 20 million people and made millions of people homeless.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch |
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune
By Express / Reuters | September 6, 2010


LAKKI MARWAT: At least 19 people were killed and 24 injured when a  suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a police station in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa early Monday morning.

Eleven policemen are among the injured. The injured have been shifted to the district headquarter hospital, Bannu and sources fear casualties may rise.

Nearby buildings have also been damaged as a result of the blast, trapping many people under its debris.
Security forces have cordoned off the area and begun a search operation. Ten suspects have been rounded up in the post-blast investigations.


“There were nine policemen among the dead,” senior police official Iftikhar Ahmad told AFP by telephone after the attack on Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, not far from tribal areas that are a stronghold of the Taliban. Police said 20 policemen were among the injured.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the bombing but the Pakistani Taliban has been blamed for similar attacks.

Nearly 100 people were killed in suicide bombings on processions of minority Shi’ite Muslims in the eastern city of Lahore and southwestern city of Quetta last week. The attacks by militants linked to al Qaeda and Taliban ended a lull in violence after Pakistan was hit by the worst floods in its history, which have affected nearly 20 million people and made millions of people homeless.


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