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BOMB BLAST reported in KhanPur

Dude no one died:

RPO Bahawalpur Syed Abid Qadri denied reports of the deaths and said that the incident took place when a transformer exploded. “It was not an incident of terrorism,” he told Express News.

check bilal's previous post .9 died . RIP
 
RIP dead people...Bomb blasts are nothing new there :cry:

Does no one read?

RPO Bahawalpur Syed Abid Qadri denied reports of the deaths and said that the incident took place when a transformer exploded. “It was not an incident of terrorism,” he told Express News.
 
Does no one read?

RPO Bahawalpur Syed Abid Qadri denied reports of the deaths and said that the incident took place when a transformer exploded. “It was not an incident of terrorism,” he told Express News.

Unfortunately the RPO is wrong.

Khanpur: 18 killed in blast during Chehlum procession | The Nation

At least 18 people were killed and over two dozens were injured when a blast rocked Khanpur Tehsil of the Rahim Yar Khan district of Bahawalpur division on Sunday, rescue sources said. Police sources said that the bomb was planted in electrical transformer. “The investigator have also found ball-bearings from the place. The sources said that the blast occurred near the Imam Bargah near Darkhwasti Chowk of the tehsil. However, RPO Bahawalpur Abid Qadri has claimed that it was an explosion in electrical transformer.

Looks like a LEJ / SES type of op in area of their influence.
 
Pakistan blast: Shias killed in Khanpur procession

Pakistani parademics treat a blast victim at a hospital in Rahim Yar Khan district, Punjab, on 15 January 2012 Ambulances quickly took the wounded to hospitals for treatment

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At least 17 people have been killed and some 20 wounded in a bomb attack on a Shia religious procession in the central Pakistani city of Khanpur.

Police initially thought the blast had been caused by an electrical fault, but later confirmed it was a bomb.

The attack targeted Shias marking the festival of Arbain, one of the main holy days of the Shia calendar.

There have been a number of attacks targeting the minority Shia community, carried out by Sunni militants.

The remote-controlled bomb was planted near an electric pole, Sohail Chattha, the area's police chief, told Reuters news agency.

He said it was set off as the procession approached.

"There was a loud explosion a few yards from the procession and we all scrambled to get away," Imran Iqbal, who was in the procession, told Reuters.
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"Debris was everywhere, and a cloud of dust engulfed us. Many people died on the spot."

Cameras captured the sound of the blast - which silenced the mourning chants of the marchers - followed by the sight of a cloud of dust rising into the sky, the BBC's Shoaib Hasan reports from Karachi.

As the dust cleared, the wounded dragged themselves from the scene of the blast, their cries filling the air, he said.

Ambulances arrived quickly and rushed the injured to local hospitals.

Angry members of the procession later clashed with the police amid accusations that the security provided had been inadequate.

No organisation has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, our correspondent says.

But South Punjab is home turf to Pakistan's deadliest Sunni militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which is notoriously anti-Shia, he adds.

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Shia massacres have gone for too long and too far, and the worst part is these criminals from LeJ think that they are above the law and operate with impunity. They have been a source of intense radicalization in the Society and if these pricks are not bottled and corked, Pakistan faces a serious blowback in the near future. Why doesn't someone create a strong Anti-Terrorism law in Pakistan to deter them ? The next wave of fundamentalism and extremism after Al-Qaeda and TTP are these buggers.
 
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