DTN News: Pakistan TODAY April 19, 2010 ~ Kohat Struck By Another Suicide Attack, Seven Dead
Source: DTN News / AFP
(NSI News Source Info) PESHAWAR, Pakistan - April 19, 2010: Seven people were killed Sunday in the third suicide attack in 24 hours in the north-western city of Kohat.
Police said the target of the latest strike – hours after 41 people were kille
d in a double-suicide attack – was a police station but the bomber exploded his car early after officers tried to stop him.
“The bomber exploded his vehicle at the back of the police station,” city police chief Dilawar Khan Bangash told AFP.
All the dead were civilians, while six policemen were among the injured, he added.
In all, 26 people were injured in the latest blast, Abdullah Jan, the district’s top police officer, told reporters, adding: “These incidents are a reaction to the military operation in the tribal areas.”
Saeed Akbar, a watchman employed at a school also damaged in the attack, told AFP he rushed inside after sensing danger when the driver failed to stop his car despite police efforts to wave him down.
“I rushed back inside the school and suddenly a huge blast happened. The outer wall of the school fell on me, but myself with the grace of God was in my senses,” he said in hospital where he was being treated for minor injuries.
Fida Hussain, a 30-year-old shopkeeper who suffered a shrapnel wound to his forehead, told AFP: “I saw a blue flame after the deafening blast. Something hit me on my forehead and I fell to the ground. I do not remember what happened after that.”
Another senior police officer said around 200 kilograms of explosives were used in Sunday’s attack, which left an eight-foot (two metre) crater.
The attack destroyed three rooms of the police station in the garrison city. It also destroyed three rooms in a nearby government-run primary school for boys as well as vehicles and seven nearby shops, police said.
Source: DTN News / AFP
(NSI News Source Info) PESHAWAR, Pakistan - April 19, 2010: Seven people were killed Sunday in the third suicide attack in 24 hours in the north-western city of Kohat.
Police said the target of the latest strike – hours after 41 people were kille
d in a double-suicide attack – was a police station but the bomber exploded his car early after officers tried to stop him.
“The bomber exploded his vehicle at the back of the police station,” city police chief Dilawar Khan Bangash told AFP.
All the dead were civilians, while six policemen were among the injured, he added.
In all, 26 people were injured in the latest blast, Abdullah Jan, the district’s top police officer, told reporters, adding: “These incidents are a reaction to the military operation in the tribal areas.”
Saeed Akbar, a watchman employed at a school also damaged in the attack, told AFP he rushed inside after sensing danger when the driver failed to stop his car despite police efforts to wave him down.
“I rushed back inside the school and suddenly a huge blast happened. The outer wall of the school fell on me, but myself with the grace of God was in my senses,” he said in hospital where he was being treated for minor injuries.
Fida Hussain, a 30-year-old shopkeeper who suffered a shrapnel wound to his forehead, told AFP: “I saw a blue flame after the deafening blast. Something hit me on my forehead and I fell to the ground. I do not remember what happened after that.”
Another senior police officer said around 200 kilograms of explosives were used in Sunday’s attack, which left an eight-foot (two metre) crater.
The attack destroyed three rooms of the police station in the garrison city. It also destroyed three rooms in a nearby government-run primary school for boys as well as vehicles and seven nearby shops, police said.
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