Friday, August 31, 2012

Car bomb rips through Peshawar; 11 dead

Just another start to the weekend in Pakistan...you know....11 people blown into small chunks by a car bomb set off to prove how merciful allah is.

I'm tempted sometime to count up the number of days in a year that Pakistan DOESN'T have someone killed in a bombing or other terror attack or by some fanatic honor killing or killing of an infidel.  I swear I bet there aren't 20 days out of 365 that blood isn't shed.

The story comes from DAWN.



Car bomb rips through Peshawar; 11 dead


PESHAWAR: A powerful car bomb ripped through a market in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 11 people, police said.

The explosion in Matni bazaar near the city of Peshawar injured another 20 people and damaged 30 shops, senior police official Abdul Sattar said.

Khan said the dead and wounded had been transported to a hospital, and some of the injured were listed in a critical condition.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack.

Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar condemned the attack, saying terrorists had killed innocent people by detonating the bomb in a crowded bazar.

“Such attacks cannot deter our resolve in the fight against terrorism,” he said.

Peshawar has witnessed scores of such attacks, most blamed on Pakistani Taliban against whom the military has launched several offensives in recent years. Local tribal elders have assisted the military in its campaigns.

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