Thursday, March 10, 2011

40 killed in a suicide bombing at a funeral in Pakistan

Islamabad - At least 40 people were killed and 60 wounded in a suicide bombing today in Pakistan during a funeral near the town of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, said a government official to news agency DPA. The bomber detonated the explosive charge he was carrying when some 150 people were attending the funeral of the wife of a pro-government tribal leader in the town of Adezai, about 20 kilometers southeast of Peshawar, the capital of the province of Khyber-Pajtunjwa.

In this attack this morning occurred in the country totaling more than 20 killed in another attack which took place last Monday, and which together cover more than 50 people in less than a week. Most of the victims of today's attack were members of a tribal militia set up by local people to expel from the area to Taliban rebels.

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