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Pakistan mosque attacks kill scores
Suicide bombing claimed by Pakistani Taliban leaves at least 67 dead in first
of two blasts in country's northwest.
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2010 21:19 GMT
At least 67 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after a
17-year-old suicide bomber struck a Sunni Muslim mosque in northwest Pakistan
during Friday prayers, in the first of two attacks on mosques in the region.
The blast collapsed part of the mosque's roof on top of worshippers, and there
are fears the death toll from the explosion could rise. A local official in
Darra Adam Khel, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said 11 children were among
the dead, Dawn newspaper reported.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Pakistan Taliban Movement, claimed
responsibility for the attack, which was not the first against the mosque, Al
Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reported.
The suicide bomber's explosives weighed between 10 to 15kg, he said.
Darra Adam Khel is a town renowned for its arm bazaar and located around 40km
south of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly known as North
West Frontier Province.
Second attack
A second attack struck another mosque later on Friday in Badabher, a town near
Peshawar, killing at least three people and wounding at least 20 others.
The imam of the mosque was killed after the attackers threw three hand grenades
into the mosque during evening prayers, AP reported.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has experienced continual violence over the past year and a
half, as Pakistan's government has battled Taliban and other pro-Taliban groups
on the country's porous border with Afghanistan.
"There is a steady pattern emerging, and mosques are not spared," Hyder said.
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He said the attacks on religious sites are causing widespread anger in Pakistan.
"[The Taliban] have been dislodged from many areas ... [they] are not able to
regroup and challenge the writ of the government," Hyder said.
"It's more guerrilla tactics. They're choosing targets of opportunity, soft
targets at that."
Darra Adam Khel lies on a highway that serves as a main conduit between
Peshawar and scenes of heavier fighting to the south in North and South
Waziristan, regions that lie in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Around 3,800 people have been killed in suicide attacks and bombings since
government troops raided the Red Mosque in Islamabad in 2007, according to Dawn.
A member of a local anti-Taliban militia, or lashkars, reportedly attended the
mosque in Darra Adam Khel - a possible motive for the attack.
The absence of a hospital in or near the town meant that residents had to
transport bombing victims up the highway to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
Haji Razaq Khan, a member of Pakistan's senate from Darra Adam Khel, said that
Malik Wali Khan, a local tribal elder who had been encouraging people to stand
against the Taliban, used a guest room next to the mosque and may have been the
target, the Associated Press reported.
It was not immediately clear whether Malik Wali Khan had been hurt.
Khalid Umarzai, a regional administration chief, suggested the attack could
have been in retaliation for military operations in the area targeting fighters.
In October, a bomb attack at a Sunni mosque on the outskirts of Peshawar killed
three people and wounded 22. It also occurred during Friday prayers.
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