30 Dead in Pakistan Military Blast
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25/10/2007
ISLAMABAD (AFP)- A blast tore through a truck carrying paramilitary soldiers
in restive northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 30 people and wounding at
least a dozen more, a senior security official said.
The vehicle, which was packed with ammunition, was travelling outside
Mingora, the main city in the scenic Swat valley in North West Frontier
Province, when the explosion occurred, the official said.
"Thirty people were killed in the explosion including 17 paramilitary
soldiers. The damage was high because the truck was packed with ammunition,"
the official, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
A doctor at a local hospital said 10 bodies had been brought in so far.
"Ten dead bodies were brought to Saidu Sharif hospital, and 35 wounded
people. Some of the bodies are charred," doctor Nisar Khan told AFP.
Security sources said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the
truck, but the government said the truck's cargo could have triggered the
explosion.
"The nature of the blast is not clear and it is being ascertained. There was
ammunition in the truck which caused the damage," interior ministry
spokesman Javed Cheema told AFP.
The explosion comes just one day after Pakistan deployed more than 2,000
troops to the scenic Swat valley to bolster efforts to stem rising violence
linked to pro-Taliban militants.
The district was once one of Pakistan's premier tourist attractions, but the
area in conservative North West Frontier Province, bordering Afghanistan,
has become a stronghold of banned group Tahreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi
(TNSM).
The radical group has close ties to Taliban fighters who have been mounting
attacks on government officials and security forces in the area.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack.
Hundreds of Taliban militants fled over the Afghan border into Pakistan's
nearby tribal areas after the fall of the Taliban in a US-led invasion in
2001.
Pakistan's military has suffered a string of deadly attacks since government
troops stormed the Al-Qaeda-linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July.
Most of those attacks have been suicide blasts that have killed about 400
people since July, according to an AFP tally.
The military said Wednesday that the deployment of troops into Swat was
aimed at improving law and order in the troubled region.
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