2:54pm UK, Saturday November 14, 2009
Eleven people have been killed by a suicide car bomber in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
The bomber detonated his device when policemen asked him to stop for a search.
Police official Malik Jehangir, who was in charge of the checkpoint, said his officers were checking vehicles when he saw a suspicious black car across the barrier and he asked one of them to go and check it.
"I saw that there was some argument between the driver and the policeman and suddenly a blast downed me," he said.
Another witness, Akbar Ali, said that he was riding a motorcycle and waiting in the queue at the checkpoint when he saw a scuffle between the bomber and the policeman.
"He was a young man, about 20-years-old with a small beard and wearing a white cap. When I noticed that his body was swollen, I left my bike there and ran away fearing he might be a bomber."
Ali said that seconds after a huge blast threw him to the ground.
Peshawar is near the Afghanistan border and has a massive al Qaeda and Taliban presence.
It has increasingly become the favoured target for attacks by militants, particularly since the Pakistani army launched its offensive in October.
On Friday a suicide attack in Peshawar devastated the three-storey provincial headquarters of the country's Inter Services Intelligence agency.
At least 17 people were killed and 39 others were injured in the bombing. Taliban militants claimed responsibility
www.stopterrorism.co.in
Rahul Vallamber
Eleven people have been killed by a suicide car bomber in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
The bomber detonated his device when policemen asked him to stop for a search.
Police official Malik Jehangir, who was in charge of the checkpoint, said his officers were checking vehicles when he saw a suspicious black car across the barrier and he asked one of them to go and check it.
"I saw that there was some argument between the driver and the policeman and suddenly a blast downed me," he said.
Another witness, Akbar Ali, said that he was riding a motorcycle and waiting in the queue at the checkpoint when he saw a scuffle between the bomber and the policeman.
"He was a young man, about 20-years-old with a small beard and wearing a white cap. When I noticed that his body was swollen, I left my bike there and ran away fearing he might be a bomber."
Ali said that seconds after a huge blast threw him to the ground.
Peshawar is near the Afghanistan border and has a massive al Qaeda and Taliban presence.
It has increasingly become the favoured target for attacks by militants, particularly since the Pakistani army launched its offensive in October.
On Friday a suicide attack in Peshawar devastated the three-storey provincial headquarters of the country's Inter Services Intelligence agency.
At least 17 people were killed and 39 others were injured in the bombing. Taliban militants claimed responsibility
www.stopterrorism.co.in
Rahul Vallamber
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