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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Matani suicide attack death toll reaches 18
By Javed Aziz Khan
PESHAWAR: Three people, including a policeman, were killed and five others sustained injuries here on Monday when a suicide bomber riding an auto-rickshaw blew himself up at a police barricade on the Ring Road in the Latifabad area.
This was the second suicide bombing in Peshawar during the last 24 hours.Also, the death toll in the Sunday’s suicide attack in Matani reached 18, as three critically wounded villagers succumbed to their injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH).
An eyewitness, Attaullah, told reporters that policemen deployed at a barricade near a canal signalled an auto-rickshaw (Z-3816) to stop around 10:00 am.“A man in his early 20s, having a trimmed beard and wearing brown clothes, came out of the three-wheeler and detonated explosives strapped around his vest,” he recalled.
Another eyewitness, Sher Afzal, said he saw two people going towards the barricade in a rickshaw a few moments before the blast. The son of Sher Afzal was among the injured.
LRH Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Mukhtar Ahmad said that they had received four bodies, including one of a policeman and another of the rickshaw driver. The fourth body was believed to be of the bomber. “Five injured brought to the hospital are out of danger,” he said.
Meanwhile, Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Karim Khan told reporters that three people were killed in the suicide attack. The dead were identified as Police Constable Waheedullah, auto-rickshaw driver Sanobar and passer-by Dilawar.
The injured were identified as Shahnawaz, Izzatullah, Nosherwan and Dr Feroz. The identity of another injured could not be ascertained yet.Investigators said five to six kilograms of explosives were used in the incident.
Police Constable Waheedullah from Shabqadar, Charsadda, was a former Army soldier, who had been recruited into the Frontier Police on October 17. His funeral prayers were offered at the Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines, Peshawar, from where his coffin — draped in the national flag — was sent to his village for burial.
Intelligence officials were investigating as to how the suicide bomber made it to an urban area in Peshawar, because the entire suburban areas had almost been sealed with police barricades at 104 points.
It would be considered a failure of the security system if the bomber had entered the city from outside. And it would be a failure of the intelligence system if the bomber was already residing in an urban locality.
“It was due to the strict security measures taken by the city police that the bomber could not reach his target, which could be somewhere in the nearby populated locality,” senior police official Karim Khan said.
Many people were surprised to see the site of the blast, as it neither had any important building nor a high-profile figure was residing in the nearby areas. The place where the barricades were erected near a bridge is at a distance of 100 metres from the Charsadda Road Chowk.
Apart from three shops, the rest of the buildings located on both sides of the road and canal were being used for residential purposes. The road connects Latifabad and Sardar Ahmad Jan Colony with the Ring Road.
NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour, while vowing to continue action against the terrorists, blamed the religio-political groups for backing the militants.
Anger and grief prevailed in the Adezai village where people were coming to offer condolences to the aggrieved families of Abdul Malik and 17 others. The villagers have pledged to take revenge for the attack.
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