Woman dead, 22 hurt in NW Pakistan blast: official
PAKISTAN - 21 JANUARY 2010
KHAR, Pakistan A roadside bomb apparently targeting anti-Taliban elders killed one woman and injured 22 others on Thursday in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The explosion hit their bus in Salarzai district in the tribal region of Bajaur, a day after a similar bomb planted in the road injured a provincial parliamentarian in the northwest capital Peshawar.
"It was an improvised explosive device which exploded as the bus headed to the region's main town of Khar," local government official Mazhar Ali said. "One woman was killed while 22 other passengers were wounded."
Sayed Badshah, a doctor at a local hospital, said four of the wounded were in a critical condition.
The vehicle was carrying some tribal elders who had formed a militia to fight Islamist extremists in the region. A number of local leaders have been killed in similar attacks in Bajaur in recent months.
Also in Bajaur, two Taliban militants were killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded in Savaei village, local official Farooq Khan said.
Source: AFP
PAKISTAN - 21 JANUARY 2010
KHAR, Pakistan A roadside bomb apparently targeting anti-Taliban elders killed one woman and injured 22 others on Thursday in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The explosion hit their bus in Salarzai district in the tribal region of Bajaur, a day after a similar bomb planted in the road injured a provincial parliamentarian in the northwest capital Peshawar.
"It was an improvised explosive device which exploded as the bus headed to the region's main town of Khar," local government official Mazhar Ali said. "One woman was killed while 22 other passengers were wounded."
Sayed Badshah, a doctor at a local hospital, said four of the wounded were in a critical condition.
The vehicle was carrying some tribal elders who had formed a militia to fight Islamist extremists in the region. A number of local leaders have been killed in similar attacks in Bajaur in recent months.
Also in Bajaur, two Taliban militants were killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded in Savaei village, local official Farooq Khan said.
Source: AFP
