பாகிஸ்தான் மசூதிக்குள் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதி வெடித்ததில் கூடவே 48 பேரும் பலி

பாகிஸ்தானில் ஒரு மசூதிக்குள் 1200 பேர் உட்கார்ந்திருக்கும்போது ஒரு இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதி உடலெங்கும் ஆணிகள் பொருத்திய குண்டுகளை வெடித்ததில் அந்த இடத்திலேயே ஆணிகள் பாய்ந்து 48 பேர் சுவனம் சென்றனர்.

இவர்கள் தங்கள் வன்முறை மார்க்கத்தை விட்டுவிட்டு அமைதிமார்க்கமாம் இந்துமதம் வர எல்லாம் வல்ல இறையை பிரார்த்திப்போம்.

Suicide attack kills 48 in Pakistan mosque
Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:48pm IST Email | Print | Share| Single Page[-] Text [+]
1 of 1Full SizeBy Ammad Waheed

CHARSADDA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 48 people in a mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday where a former interior minister was offering Muslim Eid festival prayers with worshippers, the government said.

The former minister, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, survived unhurt but at least 80 people were wounded in the blast in Charsadda district in North West Frontier Province. Several of the wounded were in a critical condition, Interior Ministry spokesman Colonel Javed Lodhi told Reuters.

Sherpao, who was interior minister in President Pervez Musharraf's recently dissolved government and who is now running in Jan. 8 parliamentary elections, was the likely target of the attack at the mosque in his home village, the government said.

Sherpao, who heads a small pro-Musharraf political party, escaped unharmed but his son was injured. Sherpao had been injured in April in another suicide attack at a public meeting in Charsadda.

Body parts and shoes were scattered around the mosque floor covered in pools of blood. Police found parts of a jacket, believed to belong to the attacker, and ball bearings aimed at causing maximum damage.

The suspected bomber, sitting in a middle row among the worshippers, detonated his bomb as prayers ended and people gathered around the politician to greet him, said a police official who asked not to be named.

"It's inhuman. No Muslim can do such a thing on the day of Eid," said Mohammad Asad, 45, who lost his two cousins in the attack.

Around 1,200 worshippers were at the mosque at the time of the explosion. Continued...