A suicide bomber has killed more than thirty people dead and dozens injured in the Pakistani city of Peshawar (north) to detonate his charge to a passing funeral procession in the latest in a series of Islamist attacks trying to destabilize the government. The attack was aimed at members of a peace committee, a militia formed outside the security forces to fight Taliban insurgents, who attended the funeral of the wife of a pro-government tribal leader.
These militiamen, supported by the Government, are a frequent target of attacks in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, whose capital is Peshawar, in the struggle to control the mountainous northwest bordering Afghanistan. The bomber mingled with the mourners before blowing his load, according to a senior administration of Peshawar.
"The toll so far is 34 dead, but will rise," he assured. "People had met and had just started to pray when a guy came and blew himself" a survivor described the chain Geo. Television pictures showed bloodied caps and shoes at the scene of the attack, which took place this morning on the outskirts of the city.
Some showed dazed survivors, while others were busy carrying the wounded into trucks for transfer to hospital. "When we heard the explosion, we knew something terrible had happened," he assured Anwar Khan, who owns a transportation company. "We ran to the place and looked like doomsday.
There were dead and wounded everywhere," says Khan, who has helped relocate 60 people to hospital. A Taliban spokesman has claimed responsibility for the attack in statements to the BBC, and says it is retaliation for the support of the tribal militia to Pakistani security forces in an operation that takes place against the radicals.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, condemned the attack and stressed the readiness of his government to destroy "the cancer of terrorism", according to a statement. Another 25 people were killed yesterday and more than a hundred wounded in a suicide attack against a service station, this time in the town of Faisalabad in the eastern province of Punjab.
Near that area is located military buildings and Pakistani security agencies. Another three days ago reported attacks killed a total of 36 dead in various parts of northwestern Pakistan. 
These militiamen, supported by the Government, are a frequent target of attacks in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, whose capital is Peshawar, in the struggle to control the mountainous northwest bordering Afghanistan. The bomber mingled with the mourners before blowing his load, according to a senior administration of Peshawar.
"The toll so far is 34 dead, but will rise," he assured. "People had met and had just started to pray when a guy came and blew himself" a survivor described the chain Geo. Television pictures showed bloodied caps and shoes at the scene of the attack, which took place this morning on the outskirts of the city.
Some showed dazed survivors, while others were busy carrying the wounded into trucks for transfer to hospital. "When we heard the explosion, we knew something terrible had happened," he assured Anwar Khan, who owns a transportation company. "We ran to the place and looked like doomsday.
There were dead and wounded everywhere," says Khan, who has helped relocate 60 people to hospital. A Taliban spokesman has claimed responsibility for the attack in statements to the BBC, and says it is retaliation for the support of the tribal militia to Pakistani security forces in an operation that takes place against the radicals.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, condemned the attack and stressed the readiness of his government to destroy "the cancer of terrorism", according to a statement. Another 25 people were killed yesterday and more than a hundred wounded in a suicide attack against a service station, this time in the town of Faisalabad in the eastern province of Punjab.
Near that area is located military buildings and Pakistani security agencies. Another three days ago reported attacks killed a total of 36 dead in various parts of northwestern Pakistan.
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