17 die in NWFP suicide attacks.At least 17 people, including police, army personnel and civilians, were killed in two separate suicide attacks in northwestern Pakistan early Friday morning, witnesses and officials said. The first attack was carried out in the city of Peshawar at 6:45am. The target was the offices of Pakistans intelligence agency ISI ISI International Sensitivity Index, see there or the Inter-Services Intelligence. Army officials confirmed the death of 10 people in the blast and injuries to nearly 60 others. They say the dead included seven military men and three civilians. The injured were shifted to Lady Reading and Combined Military hospitals in the city. The civil administration, however, said the death toll had reached to 13. Information Minister of the North-Western Frontier province Mian Iftikhar Hussain told journalists that 13 people were killed. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. witnesses, the explosives were packed in a pick-up truck. There was firing and then a huge blast, said Ahmad Ali, one of the civilian injured who was waiting at a traffic signal on the Khyber Road at the time of the explosion. The under attack building of the intelligence agency is also located on the Khyber Road. There are the governor house, the chief minister house, the US consulate and the building of NWFP NWFP North-West Frontier Province (northwest Pakistan) NWFP Northwest Forest Plan NWFP Non-Wood Forest Product assembly at short distance from the site of the blast. One portion of the three-storey building is razed while several other houses in the same locality and at least 45 vehicles have been damaged in the blast. Taimoor, whose house was bitterly damaged in the explosion, told Pajhwok Afghan News that there was firing and then the huge explosion. He said his mother, who was offering the morning prayers, fell unconscious while his children and other family members started running here and there. I did not know what is going on for some time, said the 55-year-old. He demanded of the government to ensure security of the common citizens alongside focusing on their own security all the times. About a week ago, the NWFP government had ordered all schools closed for fear of suicide attacks. However, the schools were opened a few days ago. Attendance was thin at offices and schools on Friday and many people preferred to stay indoors instead of going to offices, coming out in the markets or offering the Friday congregational prayers at the mosques. In a separate suicide attack suicide attack suicide n → Selbstmordanschlag m at a police station in Bannu district Bannu District is one of the twenty four districts of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The chief city of the district is Bannu. The major industries are cloth weaving and the manufacture of cotton fabrics, machinery, and equipment. , seven policemen were killed and 23 more people, majority of them policemen, were injured the same day. The police station is located on the Waziristan-Bakakhel road. The area is located close to the troubled South Waziristan, where the Pakistan security forces are pressing a massive operation against the Taliban led by militant warlord warlord, in modern Chinese history, autonomous regional military commander. In the political chaos following the death (1916) of republican China's first president and commander in chief, Yüan Shih-kai, central authority fell to the provincial military governors Hakimullah Mehsud. Copyright Pajhwok Afghan News. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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