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BBC News South Asia 6 December 2010 Last updated at 11:23 GMT Pakistan suicide bomb attack kills dozens A suicide bomb attack in north-west Pakistan has left at least 40 people dead, local officials have said. The attack took place at a government compound in the Mohmand Agency as officials met anti-Taliban allies. Dozens of people have also been hurt in the attack, local media say. The area borders Afghanistan and is a stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The military has launched offensives there but insurgent attacks continue on a regular basis. Injured evacuated The latest attack was carried out by two suicide bombers and targeted a local administration compound in Ghalanai, the main town in Mohmand, about 175km (110 miles) north-west of the capital Islamabad. More than 100 people were said to be in the compound, where talks were taking place between government officials, tribal elders and local anti-Taliban groups. One official, Mohammad Khalid Khan, told Associated Press that tribal elders and police officials were among the dead. About 25 seriously injured people have been taken to Peshawar for hospital treatment. One of the possible targets of the attack, Mohmand's top political official, Amjad Ali Khan, was not hurt. He told Reuters news agency: "There were two bombers. They were on foot. The first blew himself up inside the office of one of my deputies while the second one set off explosives when guards caught him." Thousands of people have been killed in al-Qaeda and Taliban attacks across Pakistan since government forces raided an extremist mosque in Islamabad in 2007. In July, a double suicide bombing in the village of Yakaghund in Mohmand, which also targeted tribal elders, killed more than 100 people. Pakistan's military says its offensives have disrupted militants in the north-west but analysts say the insurgents often escape. ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
