65 die in Pak suicide attack
Peshawar, July 9: At least 65 people were killed and 110 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers struck a government office at a busy market place in Pakistan’s restive tribal belt, the latest in a wave of terror bloodbath that has shaken the country.
The attackers detonated their explosives outside the office of the assistant political agent at Yakaghund village in Mohmand Agency, 40 km north of Peshawar.
Hundreds of people, including members of an anti-Taliban militia, were present outside the office and in the nearby market.
The Mohmand chapter of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack, one of the worst terrorist assaults in the tribal belt. Taliban spoke-sman, Ikramullah, told reporters that the bombers had targeted the political administration and the “peace committee” or anti-Taliban militia from Ambar area because they had organised a jirga against the militants. A prison, some other government offices and over 70 shops were damaged by the blasts. Pol-ice said nearly 30 criminals held in the prison escaped during the chaos in the wake of the attack.
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