Posted on 02/19/2009 11:32:27 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
A bomb tore through a huge funeral procession for a slain Shiite Muslim leader in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding several more, police said. Rising sectarian violence threatens to further destabilize nuclear-armed Pakistan just as it faces renewed U.S. pressure to crack down on Taliban and al-Qaida militants.
Friday's explosion tore through crowds streaming toward a graveyard for the burial of Sher Zeman, a Shiite leader who was gunned down in the city the day before.
City police official Miran Shah said at least six of the estimated 1,000 mourners were killed. Others wounded by the explosion were rushed to nearby hospitals, he said.
Police said people angered by the attack fired on police officers rushing to the scene. An Associated Press reporter in the city heard the gunfire and said troops had arrived to help restore order.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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Is that a Triumph Bonneville?
Do ya still have and ride it?
I read in the foreign press that some 30+ people were killed in this attack, and more than 50 severely injured.
A sane country would immediately expel all the members of the cult of death.
Why we don’t incite a Shia-Sunni war I do not understand. Or maybe we are.
It’s a 2010 Triumph Scrambler. I have yet to buy it.
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