France 24
Thursday, December 13, 2007
PAKISTAN
Twin suicide attacks hit southwest Pakistan
Thursday, December 13, 2007
At least seven people were killed and several more
wounded when two suicide bombers attacked a military
checkpoint in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's
Baluchistan province.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
By AFP
At least seven people were killed and several others
wounded Thursday in two suicide attacks at a military
checkpost in restive southwestern Pakistan, officials
said.
As people converged on the scene of the first bombing
near the provincial capital of Quetta, a second
suicide bomber blew himself up, provincial police
chief Saud Gohar told AFP.
Three soldiers and four civilians were killed,
military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told
AFP.
A senior security official said the death toll was 11,
with seven military personnel killed, but the army
spokesman declined to confirm this figure.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the
attacks, which come just two days before President
Pervez Musharraf is set to lift a controversial state
of emergency he imposed last month, citing Islamist
violence.
The military has been the primary target in a wave of
suicide attacks across the country since the army
raided the radical Red Mosque in the capital Islamabad
in July, leaving more than 100 people dead, most of
them militants.
"This is the first time that a suicide attack has
taken place in this part of the city," Arshad told a
private television channel. "There were two people
involved in the attack."
An AFP photographer said the site of the blast had
been cordoned off and that journalists were blocked
from approaching. The sirens of ambulances were heard
carrying the wounded toward a nearby military
hospital.
The military erected road blocks nearby, snarling
traffic in the city.
Ethnic Baluch rebels are also active in the region but
are not known for carrying out suicide attacks, which
are a hallmark of Taliban-linked militants who
sometimes infiltrate from across the border in
Afghanistan.
But the attacks come amid heightened tension in
violence-plagued Baluchistan province since the
controversial death of a leading ethnic Baluch
insurgent last month.
Baluchistan has been in the grip of a three-year
insurgency launched by ethnic Baluch rebels who want
more political rights and a greater share of profits
from the region's natural resources.
Hundreds have died in violence in the province since
the insurgency flared in 2004, although the bloodshed
lessened after the main Baluchistan rebel leader was
killed in an army raid on his cave in 2006.
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