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10 killed in North Waziristan suicide attack |
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Updated at:
2100
PST, Monday, February 11, 2008 |
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NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A suicide bomb killed an election candidate and nine other people in Pakistan Monday, while a political worker died in a clash between rival parties as a wave of pre-poll violence intensified.
The attacks raised new fears about the security of the elections in one week's time, with candidates keeping a low profile since the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto at a political rally in December.
Police said Monday's bombing in the tribal region of North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, targeted the convoy of a candidate named as Nisar Ali as he travelled to a political meeting.
"It was a suicide attack, a miscreant rammed his car laden with explosives into the candidate's convoy," a tribal police official said after the attack in the village of Aidak, near the major town of Mir Ali.
"10 people were killed, including the candidate and an administration official, while 13 others were wounded."
Officials said the candidate was linked to the Awami National Party (ANP), an ethnic Pashtun nationalist party. A suicide bomber killed 25 people at an ANP rally in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of suicide attacks across the nuclear-armed nation that has so far this year left nearly 100 people dead, all blamed by the government on Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants. |
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