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Sunday, February 04, 2007
Six injured in attack on Army convoy; man dies planting bomb in Lakki Marwat
Akhtar Shahzad
TANK: Two Pakistan Army soldiers were killed and six others were wounded when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-laden jeep into a military vehicle near Tank town on the Dera Ismail Khan-Tank road on Saturday, military and civil officials said.
District Nazim Riaz Kundi, who rushed to Barakhel village where the suicide attack took place eight kilometres from Tank town, told reporters that two soldiers were killed and six others wounded. A number of people reached the place and the crowd jostled to have a view of the two destroyed vehicles.
The suicide bomber was blown into pieces. Part of his head was retrieved but he was unrecognisable.
Witnesses who saw the bomber driving his Pajero jeep just before the blast said he was 17 or 18 years old. He had been chasing the small military convoy from Dera Ismail Khan on the road to Tank and was finally able to plough his red-coloured jeep into one of the Army vehicles around noon. People living in the vicinity said the blast caused a big bang and soon the clouds of smoke enveloped the scene.
Intelligence sources in Tank said there were nine soldiers in the vehicle. They were identified as Subedar Nawaz, Havaldar Salim, Naik Abid, Naik Riaz, and sepoys Jawan Ali, Qadir Bakhsh, Ashraf, Abdul Sattar and Noor Hussain. They said Sepoy Noor Hussain was killed on the spot while another, unidentified solder died on the way to the Mission Hospital in Tank. At the hospital, doctors and staff said three of the injured soldiers were in critical condition.
The sources said the wounded soldiers were airlifted to hospitals. From the Mission Hospital in Tank, they were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Dera Ismail Khan while those in critical conditions were taken to hospitals with better services.
The sources said the soldiers belonged to the Baloch Regiment. They had been on duty during Moharram to provide security in the flashpoint Dera Ismail Khan city, which occasionally suffers from sectarian strife and were returning to Tank to resume their normal duties there.
The suicide bomber didn’t attack the first vehicle in the convoy in which an Army major was seated and instead decided to strike the second vehicle with maximum number of vehicles.
It was the first attack on Pakistan Army troops outside the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) since the start of the ongoing military operations in the tribal areas,
Troops were sent to the site of the attack and the whole area near Barakhel village was secured and the road blocked to traffic. The traffic remained suspended on the busy road until late evening.
Police officials said no arrests had been made. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
An intelligence officer, requesting anonymity, said suspicion was focused on Baitullah Mahsud, a pro-Taliban tribal commander who had threatened to take revenge for the recent Pakistan Army air strikes in Jamazola in the Shak Toi area of South Waziristan.
President General Pervez Musharraf said in a press conference on Friday that Baitullah Mahud would be eliminated for sponsoring acts of terrorism.
Our Lakki Marwat correspondent adds: Meanwhile, police officials said a man was killed while planting a bomb at a market with several music and video shops in Lakki Marwat, which borders Tank district.
Deputy superintendent of police, Ashraf Khan, said the man either due to inexperience or nervousness mistakenly detonated the explosive device at 6am on Saturday and lost his life. He said the man was trying to bomb the music and video shops in the market sited near the main Lorry Adda bus stand in Lakki Marwat town. He added that the explosion took place near a medical store rather than a music shop. However, no fatalities were reported.
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