Pakistan blast kills one
PAKISTAN: A suicide bomber struck near the naval headquarters in
Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Wednesday, police said, killing one navy
official in the latest attack in the Taliban-troubled nation.
The attacker apparently walked up to a checkpoint at the entrance to
the heavily-guarded complex in central Islamabad and detonated his
explosives when challenged by security forces, police and witnesses
said.
“One naval official embraced martyrdom while two other navy officials
were wounded critically,” Fazeel Asghar, Islamabad’s top administration
official, told reporters in remarks broadcast on local television.
Bani Amin, a senior Islamabad police official on the scene, put the
wounded toll higher, telling AFP: “It was a suicide attack. Four people
were injured one is in a critical condition.”
An AFP reporter on the scene said that the flesh of the bomber was
scattered on the main road in front of the compound.
The attack comes a day after a Pakistani provincial lawmaker was
killed in a suicide attack in northwest Swat valley, and as Taliban
insurgents up attacks to avenge a multi-pronged military offensive
against them.
Islamabad itself was last hit in late October, when twin suicide
blasts tore through the International Islamic University, killing up to
five people. ISLAMABAD, Wednesday, AFP
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