Suicide Bomber destroys Police building in Pakistan

Suicide Bomber destroys Police building in Pakistan

Officials said a police building was destroyed by a bomb early Wednesday killing two people and at least 22 were wounded in the latest attack since the United States raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

No groups claimed the responsibility of the bombing.

It will be a bloody summer as the Pakistani Taliban and other groups affiliated with Al Qaeda carry out threats to avenge Bin Laden’s death. As of now, the Pakistani Taliban claimed  three revenge attacks including a deadly 18-hour siege of a naval base in Karachi this week.

A senior police official in Peshawar, Liaquat Ali Khan, said that the target appeared to be a police building, but Pakistani Army facilities also are nearby.

There were four wounded people in serious condition. Others were said to be missing, probably in the debris of the building which collapsed after the explosion.

“Our determination is much higher than before, and we will fight till the defeat of these terrorists,” said Bashir Bilour, a senior government official.

Bin Laden was killed on May 2 by a Navy Seal team in the army town of Abbottabad. Since the raid, the Pakistani Taliban have taken responsibility for a twin suicide bombing at a paramilitary police training center that killed about 90 people and a car bomb that slightly wounded two Americans.

But it is the siege of the Karachi naval base, which began Sunday and ended the next day, that has most rattled the Pakistani military. The fact that the attackers managed to infiltrate so deep into the high-security base led to speculation that they may have had inside information or assistance. The military is not immune from anti-Americanism, especially in its lower ranks.

Posted by M.Ferrer on Thursday May 26 2011, 1:49 AM EDT. Ref: AP. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0