Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Attack in Pakistan: Car bomb riding 17 people to death

The offenders struck on a busy road: When a car bomb exploded in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad, at least 17 people were killed. Dozens were injured, many are still trapped under rubble. The Pakistani city of Faisalabad has been rocked by a serious attack. "It was a huge explosion which was heard in five to six kilometers away," said a spokesman for the district administration.

An explosion has ripped more than 17 people to death. The area where the bomb detonated, was very animated. A According to officials in the accident 75 people were injured. Rescue workers were trying to salvage dead and injured from the rubble. It had been dispatched to the explosive device to a car bomb, says the district administration.

The attack was perhaps the Office of the Criminal Investigation Department, this and several other buildings were damaged or partially destroyed. Taken were a recruitment center of the army and a gas station. Numerous cars were destroyed. At first no one confessed the attack. Both the terrorist group al-Qaida and the Taliban have committed in the past, numerous attacks in Pakistani cities, primarily they were security forces.

Faisalabad, located 260 kilometers south of the capital Islamabad, was present but rarely the focus of the bombers.

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