Pakistan suicide bomb attack kills 40 people
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 6 (agencies): A suicide bomb attack in north-west Pakistan has left at least 40 people dead, local officials have said.
The attack took place at a government compound in the Mohmand Agency as officials met anti-Taliban allies. Dozens of people have also been injured in the attack, local media say.
The area borders Afghanistan and is a stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The military has launched offensives there but insurgents continue to carry out attacks on a regular basis.
The latest attack was carried out by two suicide bombers and targeted a local administration compound in Ghalalnai, the main town in Mohmand, about 175km (110 miles) north-west of the capital Islamabad.
More than 100 people were said to be in the compound, where talks were taking place between government officials, tribal elders and local anti-Taliban groups.
Thousands of people have been killed in al-Qaeda and Taliban attacks across Pakistan since government forces raided an extremist mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
Another report adds: Militants have razed two schools into rubbles in Bajaur Agency in the troubled northwest Pakistani tribal areas, local media reported Monday.
According to the report, unidentified militants destroyed a girls and a boys primary school by detonating explosives. Taliban militants not only ban girls education but also target boys schools in the northwest tribal belt of Pakistan.
Hundreds of schools, mostly girls' ones, have been destroyed by Taliban militants across the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA) effecting the education of hundreds of thousands of children, as Pakistani security forces are fighting to wipe the rugged mountainous region bordering Afghanistan clean of militancy and extremism.
The attack took place at a government compound in the Mohmand Agency as officials met anti-Taliban allies. Dozens of people have also been injured in the attack, local media say.
The area borders Afghanistan and is a stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The military has launched offensives there but insurgents continue to carry out attacks on a regular basis.
The latest attack was carried out by two suicide bombers and targeted a local administration compound in Ghalalnai, the main town in Mohmand, about 175km (110 miles) north-west of the capital Islamabad.
More than 100 people were said to be in the compound, where talks were taking place between government officials, tribal elders and local anti-Taliban groups.
Thousands of people have been killed in al-Qaeda and Taliban attacks across Pakistan since government forces raided an extremist mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
Another report adds: Militants have razed two schools into rubbles in Bajaur Agency in the troubled northwest Pakistani tribal areas, local media reported Monday.
According to the report, unidentified militants destroyed a girls and a boys primary school by detonating explosives. Taliban militants not only ban girls education but also target boys schools in the northwest tribal belt of Pakistan.
Hundreds of schools, mostly girls' ones, have been destroyed by Taliban militants across the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA) effecting the education of hundreds of thousands of children, as Pakistani security forces are fighting to wipe the rugged mountainous region bordering Afghanistan clean of militancy and extremism.