Bomb kills 35 at Pakistan funeral
A suicide bomber killed 35 and wounded 62 at a funeral for a slain police officer. The attack occurred in the volatile Swat Valley in Pakistan. The attack occurred at a government high school.
About 800 people were at the funeral including civilians and police officers, according to Shahbuddin, who is an assistant inspector of police who was at the funeral.
The explosion occurred as the pallbearers began to carry the coffin towards the grave. Shahbuddin said that as soon as the coffin was lifted, “I moved toward the gate but suddenly a big explosion took place, which dashed me against the gate…it was hell.” Shahbuddin was slightly injured in the attack.
Mingora, the town where the attack took place, is in northwestern Pakistan about 100 miles from Peshawar, a town bordering Afghanistan. Earlier this year, president Musharraf sent thousands of troops to the scenic Swat Valley to quell an uprising of a Taliban cleric. Attacks persist, but the army is confident they have driven many of the insurgents from the area. Just last week a roadside bomb killed twelve at a wedding party.
Iqball, the deputy police chief of the Lakki Marwat district, and his driver were killed by a roadside bomb Friday morning, by the time his body had returned to Mingora, night had fallen. In the shadow of night, the suicide bomber was allowed easily to mingle with the grievers.
This topic of war is depressing, no doubt about it. Will we ever live in an age where people will put aside their differences and live with each other instead of dying with each other?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080229/ap_on_re_as/pakistan
1 comment:
I'm not sure if we will ever live in a world like that. I don't believe we are, as a species any more violent than we've ever been, I do however believe our capacity for destruction has been increased through technology, something as simple as that bomb at a funeral is a horribly stark example.
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