Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Kamikaze massacres at a funeral at least 34 dead and 45 injured

ISLAMABAD - At least 34 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up during a funeral in Adezai, about twenty miles from Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. Several survivors have said that the suicide bomber wearing a shawl and was mixed in the crowd. "People had just started to pray when a guy came along and blew himself up," said one of the survivors.

The village scene of the attack is controlled by a pro-government militia (Laskar Aman Committee or the peace) which cooperates with the army's military campaign against the Taliban. About 150 people, mostly members of other anti-Taliban militias in the region, were attending the funeral of the wife of a local commander of the ethnic Pashtuns.

The responsibility for action has not been claimed so far. The attack follows Adezai one day a car bomb exploded at a gas station in the city of Faisalabad in the central region of the country. In the attack 25 people were killed and 125 were injured. Responsibility was claimed by the Taliban in Pakistan who want abbarre the government supported by Washington.

Over the past three and a half years in Pakistan there has been a series of bloody attacks, many of which took place in the North West on the border with Afghanistan, the area where the regular forces are fighting the Taliban linked to Al Qaeda. In more than 450 terrorist actions have killed 4,100 people.

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