Suicide blasts kill 59 at Pakistan arms factory

WAH: Two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Pakistan's main army munitions factory yesterday, killing 59 workers in the deadliest attack on a military installation in the country's history.

In the second bombing to rock the feuding coalition government since president Pervez Musharraf resigned on Monday, the attackers struck a crowd of workers leaving the huge complex in Wah, near Islamabad, after their shift.

The Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the atrocity and threatened to carry out further suicide attacks if an army offensive against militants near the Afghan border is not stopped. "It's a massive attack," local police chief Nasir Durrani told AFP. "Two men apparently blew themselves up outside the factory during a shift change. The bombers were on foot and they exploded themselves less than a minute apart. AFP