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30 killed, over 40 injured in twin suicide blasts in NW Pakistan

13 May 2011 04:46 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. At least 30 people were killed and over 40 others injured in the twin suicide blasts that took place early Friday morning at a military training center in Charsadda, a city some 30 kilometers northeast of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
According to the report, the attack took place at about 6:10 a. m. local time when a motorcycle and a horse cart both laden with explosives attacked a Frontier Corps (FC) training center in Charsadda.
The blasts took place at the main gate of the training center when FC personnel were on their way back after morning exercises.
Most of the people killed and injured in the blasts were army personnel and some of them were civilians as the military training center is located nearby a market, said local media reports, adding that over 15 shops were also destroyed in the blasts.
Police have cordoned off the area shortly after the blasts were reported. Journalists are kept away from the blast site. Local media reports quoted eyewitnesses as saying that ambulances were heard rushing towards the site.
All the killed and injured have been shifted to a local hospital in the city and a hospital in the neighboring city of Peshawar.
Friday morning’s terrorist attack is the most serious one of its kind in Pakistan since the killing of the chief Osama bin Laden by the U.S. special task forces in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Abbottabad. Both al-Qaida and Pakistan Taliban have vowed to avenge the death of bin Laden by threatening to launch attacks in Pakistan as well as in other places of the world.