Clothes, schoolbooks, children’s shoes and burqas lay everywhere as a
car bomb near a bus queue at a market in northwest Pakistan Monday,
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The
bomb killed 17 people including women and children and wounded dozens
more when it exploded in the town of Jamrud, killing or wounding people
waiting for buses to take them across the northwest and to other parts
of the country, according to officials.
Pools of blood and charred flesh littered the roadside, along with at least 20 burnt vehicles, said an AFP reporter.
Jamrud
is in Khyber district, which is part of Pakistan’s semi-autonomous
tribal belt on the Afghan border. The Taliban and other Al-Qaeda-linked
groups, who stage attacks in both countries, have strongholds in the
zone.
A district administration office was around 100 meters
from where the bomb was detonated but was not damaged in the attack,
according to an AFP reporter.
“Seventeen people were killed in
the blast. Fourteen bodies were brought to our hospital while three
people succumbed to their wounds on their way to Hayatabad Medical
Complex in Peshawar,” said Doctor Sameen Jan Shinwari at the Agency
Headquarters hospital in Jamrud.
“Four women were among those
killed in the blast and they were all Afghans. These women were coming
from the border in a hired car, which was completely destroyed.This item
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He
said a five-year-old Afghan girl accompanying the women and two
six-year-old Pakistani boys were also among those killed.I had the idea
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Khyber’s
top administrative official, Mutahir Zeb, played down the idea that
the government office was the intended target, but said authorities
were still investigating.
“We are still are ascertaining what procedure exactly was used to blow up the vehicle,” he said.
Two
intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the
explosives had been packed into a Suzuki Alto vehicle.
Driver
Taj Muhammad, 40, said he was entering Jamrud when he heard the
explosion and saw a ball of fire.They are considered nickel free
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“I
rushed to the site and saw people engulfed by flames. There were
pieces of human flesh and blood everywhere. I saw a little child who
was injured and crying. I took this boy to hospital,” he said.
“When I picked up the injured boy he looked like my son and I was really so sad.”
Pakistan
suffers frequent bomb and suicide attacks blamed on Islamist militant
groups. Its troops have for years been fighting homegrown armed groups
in the tribal belt.
On Saturday a suicide squad of five targeted
the airport in Peshawar, the main northwestern city close to Jamrud,
killing five civilians and blowing a hole in the perimeter wall.
The
assault, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, sparked prolonged gunfire
and forced authorities to close the airport, a commercial hub and air
force base on the edge of the tribal belt.
It was the second Islamist militant attack in four months on a military air base in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
On
Sunday a policeman and five militants were killed following gun
battles between security forces and militants suspected of having been
involved in the airport attack, security officials said.
The
government says more than 35,000 people have died due to terrorism in
the country since the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
There
has, however, been a decline in the number and severity of attacks
since 2009,The slick petrol tones in these contemporary stainless steel cufflink
links is achieved. when the Pakistan army fought major operations
against local Taliban in the northwestern district of Swat and the
tribal district of South Waziristan.
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