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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Pakistan: bomb in Khyber market, at least 26 dead


At least 26 confirmed dead and 65 wounded according to hospital officials and Pakistani police, the budget is not yet final nth bomb attack in Khyber, one of the remote semi-autonomous tribal areas that extend into the north-west Pakistan , near the border with Afghanistan, where a bomb 'exploded in a busy market town of Landi Kotal, near a bus stop. Besides those killed, are being hurt more 'than twenty people, some of whom are in serious condition. No claim, but investigators believe they were the target of the members and especially the chief of the tribe 'of pro-government Zakha Khel, long opposed to a 'warlord' room in a bloody feud. According to eyewitnesses, the blast wave and 'was so' powerful enough to cause serious damage to several adjacent buildings, many banks set on fire. Over the past five years, and the region 'was the scene of an endless series of attacks attributed to Islamist militants, who have caused the whole the deaths of over five thousand people.

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