Bus Bombing in Pakistan Kills at Least 17 Government Employees

ladder · Sep 27, 2013

Bus Bombing in Pakistan Kills at Least 17 Government Employees
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan â€” A bomb exploded in a crowded bus carrying government officials north of Peshawar on Friday, killing 17 people and wounding more than 40 in the second major attack in or near the northwestern Pakistani city in a week

The bus, carrying employees of the Peshawar Civil Secretariat, was passing through Charsadda district, 10 miles north of the city, said the city commissioner, Sahibzada Mohammad Anis.

Most of those killed were sitting near the back of the bus, where the explosion occurred, or on top of it, a local police official said. â€œThe bus was packed to its capacity and people were sitting on the roof,â€ said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media.

Mr. Anis, the city commissioner, said the explosion appeared to have been caused by either a magnetic bomb or a device that had been placed inside the bus.

The bombing came less than a week after a suicide attack on a Christian church in Peshawar killed 85 people, triggering angry street demonstrations by Christians across Pakistan.

A Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for that attack, saying it was in retaliation for American drone strikes in the nearby tribal belt. It also stoked the political debate about the wisdom of opening peace talks with the Taliban, which Imran Khan, the politician whose party runs Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, which includes Peshawar, has long advocated.

Mr. Khanâ€™s administration is coming under pressure for its failure to prevent recent Taliban attacks in the province, including a jailbreak in which hundreds of prisoners escaped.

â€œThe police do not have the capacity to check everything,â€ the newly posted provincial police chief, Nasir Durrani, said at the scene of the bombing Friday.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is in New York, has said that militants must lay down their arms and recognize Pakistanâ€™s Constitution before talks can take place.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/28/w...pakistan-kills-government-employees.html?_r=0

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Alpha1 · Sep 27, 2013

Rest in peace...

jmj_overlord · Sep 27, 2013

nothing new...just another day...anyway rip to the persons who died in this attack

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