THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2008
9:52 MECCA TIME, 6:52 GMT
Bomber hits Pakistan high court
The blast tore through a busy square in front of the
Lahore high court [AFP]
A suicide bomber has struck police outside the Lahore
high court in eastern Pakistan, causing multiple
killing at least 22 people and wounding many more.
The bomber dropped the motorcycle he was riding and
ran into a row of officers who were gathering on
Thursday morning ahead of a protest by lawyers outside
the court.
Malik Iqbal, the city police chief, said: "Twenty-two
policemen died in the attack, six are critically
wounded."
The bodies of at least 11 police officers, dressed in
full riot gear, were seen lying side-by-side where
they had fallen. A dead horse, still attached to a
vendor's cart, lay nearby.
In video
Kamahl Hyder on the attack
The lawyers had been due to protest against the rule
of Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president.
Syed Imtiaz Hussain, a police officer who suffered
wounds to his legs and groin, said: "There were about
60 to 70 policemen on duty when a man rammed into our
ranks and soon there was a huge explosion.
"I saw the bodies of other policemen burning. It was
like hell."
Motorcycle bomber
Aftab Cheema, senior superintendent of police in
Lahore, said: "A man came on a motorcycle and police
stopped him when he approached the police post, then
he blew himself up,"
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"Most of the casualties were policeman. There were a
large number of police posted outside [the court]
because the lawyers had planned a rally against the
government today."
Police bomb disposal experts estimated the bomb
contained up to 14kg of explosives.
Pakistan has seen a wave of bomb attacks in recent
months, but there have been none in Lahore, the
capital of Punjab province.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder in Islamabad said that Lahore
had previously been relatively safe and secure with
the last attack coming in 1997.
"This suicide attack ... is indeed a signal that the
suicide bombers can reach any city that they want and
today's attacker obviously was attacking the security
forces as that was the direction in which he ran," he
said.
'Terrorism and extremism'
Musharraf condemned the attack and reiterated his
resolve "to continue the fight against terrorism and
extremism and not to be deterred by such acts," the
state Associated Press of Pakistan news agency
reported.
The blast comes two weeks after the assassination of
opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in a gun and suicide
bomb attack in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
In 2007, more than 800 people were killed in attacks,
mainly suicide bombings targeting the security forces.
The majority of those attacks have taken place since
July, when the army raided a pro-Taliban mosque in the
capital Islamabad, killing at least 100 people.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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