RoP Strikes Again in Pakistan
Charles Johnson
Sat Jan 27, 2007 at 1:06 pm PST • Views: 187
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - At least 14 people including two senior police officers were killed in a suspected suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan’s main city, police and officials said. About 30 people were also injured in the explosion that targeted a police contingent guarding a procession of the Shiite Muslim community, Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao told AFP.
The blast occurred near a Shiite mosque in Qisakhawani bazaar in Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier province, bordering Afghanistan. “We have reports of 14 people killed, including six police,” a police inspector in Peshawar, Ammanullah Khan, said by telephone.
The two senior police officers killed in the explosion were identified as Peshawar police chief Malik Saad and the city’s deputy superintendent, Raziq Khan, police said.
A senior security official said the bombing was most likely a suicide attack, adding that the two severed legs of the suspected bomber were recovered from the site.
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