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Two suicide bombers kill 100 people in Pakistan
August 21, 2008 - 01:36 PM
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Pakistan's main defence industry complex on Thursday as workers were leaving at the end of their shift, killing 59 people, officials said.
Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is on the front line of the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism and al Qaeda-linked militants have launched a wave of attacks on the security forces over the past year, bombing military camps, patrols and transport.
The violence combined with political uncertainty has helped undermine investor confidence and send the country's financial markets on a downward spiral.
"There were bodies lying everywhere and wounded people soaked in blood were screaming for help," said Shah, the manager of a petrol station near the industrial complex in Wah, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Islamabad.
"Many of the wounded were either without legs or hands. I could see body parts hanging on trees," he said.
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman said the blasts were retaliation for military operations against militants in the northwestern region of Bajaur, on the Afghan border.
"If it doesn't stop we will continue such attacks," Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar said by telephone.
"The Wah factory is a killer factory where arms are being produced to kill our women and children," he said.
A hospital official said 59 people had been killed and 81 wounded in the blasts near the heavily guarded complex, the hub of Pakistan's defence industry where about 25,000 workers produce explosives, ordnance and weapons in about 15 factories.
Hundreds of workers were milling about outside the complex at the end of their shift when the bombers struck.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/wl_nm/pakistan_violence_dc;_ylt=AmSLXX7.vphbGE7wvZF7Ogis0NUE
Updated death toll....
This post was edited on: 2008-08-21 at 08:04 PM by: stevew
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