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Suicide attack kills 15 including 3 women in Islamabad |
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Updated at:
2230
PST, Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
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ISLAMABAD: 15 persons, including three women, were killed and a number of people wounded in a suicide bomb explosion near the stage prepared for the address of the Chief Justice to the Islamabad Bar.
According to the reports, the bomb exploded at a camp of the Pakistan People’s Party, some 50 meter from the stage, prepared for the address of the chief justice.
So far, 13 dead bodies were brought, most of them badly burnt, to the hospitals. They included three women. Ten dead bodies were brought to the PIMS Hospital while three reached the Poly Clinic. Two among the injured could not sustain the injuries and died at the hospital raising the death toll to 15.
The police cordoned the affected area just after the explosion and state of emergency has been imposed. Ambulances rushed to the scene taking the wounded people to hospitals. Blood and human organs were spread at the place of explosion while the blast broke the glasses of vehicles.
The eye witness and the Geo News reporters told that a bomb in the suicide attack exploded at the reception camp of the PPP near the stage and most of the persons killed belong to the People’s Party.
According to sources, the suicide bomb blast could be a result of PPP’s support to the Lal Masjid operation.
According to the interior ministry, one suicide bomber had come on his motorcycle and his head was later found in a bush of trees nearby the place of explosion and the security officials took out the head.
Among the wounded, 20 are reported to be in very critical state.
Emergency has been declared in the hospitals of Islamabad and all doctors have immediately been called on duty.
According to the interior secretary, with an eye to the further potential suicide attacks, security has been put on red alert. |
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