Bomber kills 13, injures over 30 others in Pakistan
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A wounded man receives medical treatment at a hospital in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar, on March 11, 2012. A bombing happening on Sunday killed at least 13 people in a funeral near the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police and heath officials said. |
The attack injured 32 other people at Badabher, a small town some 16 km east of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, the city police chief Imtiaz Altaf said.
He said that Deputy Speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkwa provincial assembly, Khushdil Khan, who attended the funeral, was target of the attack. But he escaped unhurt as he had left the area some 10 minutes ago, Altaf told reporters.
Doctors said that 32 injured were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. Several injured were registered critical and the death toll may rise.
A large number of people were attending the funeral for a women and the bomb exploded when the people were returning homes after the funeral at around 11:15 a.m. local time.
Residents shifted the injured in private cars to the hospital. Emergency was declared in hospital and additional doctors and medical staff were called to treat the injured.
No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
The area is famous for anti-Taliban "Lashkar" or volunteers, who support the security forces against the militants. It was not clear if any leader of the peace committee was attending the funeral who are routinely targeted by the militants.
Witnesses said that several vehicles were also destroyed in the attack.
It is the second blast in the same area in less than two months.
On Feb. 2, a car bomb in a busy market in Badabher killed at least 9 people, including children and 24 others were injured. Badabher is located near Khyber tribal region.
There had also been Taliban attacks on the security forces and pro-government peace committee members in the area in the past.
Besides Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, another militant group Lashkar-e-Islam is also active in the same region and routinely launch attacks on security forces.
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