Bloody Rawalpindi suicide attack toll reaches 34, over 40 injured.Byline: ANI Rawalpindi, Nov. 2 (ANI): The death toll in the suspected suicide attack suicide attack suicide n → Selbstmordanschlag m that rocked Pakistan's Rawalpindi city on Monday morning has reached 30, while over 40 people have been injured, police say. "Two men arrived in the car park on a motorbike, and blew themselves up. The men were probably wearing explosive jackets and the bike was definitely packed with material as well. That was why the explosion was so powerful," BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. quoted Police Supt Rana Shahid Shahid or Shaheed is a male given name common among Muslims. It is the Arabic word for witness or martyr. People with this name Famous people with this name include: See also
The blast took place at 10:40 am in a car park behind the four-star Shalimar hotel, next to a branch of the National Bank of Pakistan The National Bank of Pakistan has its headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. It has over 1,200 branches throughout Pakistan. The bank provides both commercial and public sector banking services. It has assets worth $9 billion in 2004. , outside where customers had been queuing. The GHQ is located 500 yards away from the blast site. One survivor, Rizwan Mehmood, said he had come to the bank to pay a traffic fine when the explosion went off. "Just before the blast I saw a woman with three children in a vehicle in the car park. After the blast, I saw the car they were sitting in, and it was completely destroyed," he said. No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack so far. The blast comes at a time when the Pakistani army is involved in a massive offensive against Taliban militants in South Waziristan South Waziristan (Urdu: جنوبی وزیرستان) is the southern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11 585 km² (4,473 mi²). . There have been several retaliatory attacks since the offensive began last month, including a deadly car bomb blast in Peshawar n Wednesday that killed over 100 people. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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