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PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:46am
(Reuters) - A woman covered in a
head-to-foot burqa carried out a
suicide bombing in northwestern
Pakistan on Thursday, killing herself
and another woman, police said,
adding to security challenges confronting the U.S. ally. The bombing occurred near a police
check post just yards away from
where a remote-controlled bomb hit a
police van, killing four policemen and
a child, less than an hour earlier. The woman, said to be 25 years old,
was wearing an explosive-laden vest
and blew herself up in the heart of the
main northwestern city of Peshawar. "She exploded the vest as she came
close to the check post. One policeman
was wounded," police official Tariq
Omar told Reuters. He said a 60-year-old woman was also
killed in the suicide bombing and
police were investigating whether she
was an accomplice or a passer-by. Fourteen people were wounded in the
earlier attack on the police van. The
bomb, concealed in a push-cart,
exploded as the van passed by. Police said the attacks could have
been coordinated. Taliban militants have waged a
campaign of suicide bombings across
Pakistan, killing hundreds of people in
recent years. Female suicide bombing is rare in
Pakistan, but any increase in the use of
women for such attacks may
complicate efforts by Pakistani security
forces to stem the growing Islamist
insurgency. Security officials are reluctant to search women in the
conservative country. In December, a burqa-clad bomber
killed more than 40 people in an
attack on a food distribution center in Bajaur tribal region near the Afghan
border.
(Reuters) - A woman covered in a
head-to-foot burqa carried out a
suicide bombing in northwestern
Pakistan on Thursday, killing herself
and another woman, police said,
adding to security challenges confronting the U.S. ally. The bombing occurred near a police
check post just yards away from
where a remote-controlled bomb hit a
police van, killing four policemen and
a child, less than an hour earlier. The woman, said to be 25 years old,
was wearing an explosive-laden vest
and blew herself up in the heart of the
main northwestern city of Peshawar. "She exploded the vest as she came
close to the check post. One policeman
was wounded," police official Tariq
Omar told Reuters. He said a 60-year-old woman was also
killed in the suicide bombing and
police were investigating whether she
was an accomplice or a passer-by. Fourteen people were wounded in the
earlier attack on the police van. The
bomb, concealed in a push-cart,
exploded as the van passed by. Police said the attacks could have
been coordinated. Taliban militants have waged a
campaign of suicide bombings across
Pakistan, killing hundreds of people in
recent years. Female suicide bombing is rare in
Pakistan, but any increase in the use of
women for such attacks may
complicate efforts by Pakistani security
forces to stem the growing Islamist
insurgency. Security officials are reluctant to search women in the
conservative country. In December, a burqa-clad bomber
killed more than 40 people in an
attack on a food distribution center in Bajaur tribal region near the Afghan
border.
