Police foil suicide bomb attack in Eastern Pakistan

Police foil suicide bomb attack in Eastern Pakistan

16:05, August 02, 2007

A suicide bomber and a police man were killed in a failed suicide attack on a police training center in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Thursday, police said.
The security men tried to stop a suspected bomber when he climbed the wall of the training center and entered the building in the city of Sargodha.
Police said that the suspect first fired at the policemen, killing an assistant sub-inspector and injuring another policeman.
The elite police force returned fire, killing the attacker at the scene.
The police found an explosive-laden jacket when they searched the body of the suspect, who wanted to blow himself up in the center.
The police also recovered a pistol and a hand grenade from the suspect.
District Police Officer Sheikh Muhammad Omar said that the alleged bomber, who was in the age of 22, was being identified.
He said that a police parade was the main target of the bomber, which was scheduled to begin after 10 minutes of the attack. Some 900 police recruits were supposed to take part in the parade.
He said that when the policemen tried to stop the attacker, who tried to run towards the parade area.
In another incident, five policemen were injured in a bomb blast near a traffic police headquarters in the city of Gujranwala, some 60 kilometers from Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab.
Iqbal, a commander of the bomb disposal squad, said that a time device was used for the blast.
Attacks on police training centers have increased in parts of Pakistan in recent days especially after the army stormed the Islamabad's red mosque last month.
Source: XinhuaA suicide bomber and a police man were killed in a failed suicide attack on a police training center in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Thursday, police said.
The security men tried to stop a suspected bomber when he climbed the wall of the training center and entered the building in the city of Sargodha.
Police said that the suspect first fired at the policemen, killing an assistant sub-inspector and injuring another policeman.
The elite police force returned fire, killing the attacker at the scene.
The police found an explosive-laden jacket when they searched the body of the suspect, who wanted to blow himself up in the center.
The police also recovered a pistol and a hand grenade from the suspect.
District Police Officer Sheikh Muhammad Omar said that the alleged bomber, who was in the age of 22, was being identified.
He said that a police parade was the main target of the bomber, which was scheduled to begin after 10 minutes of the attack. Some 900 police recruits were supposed to take part in the parade.
He said that when the policemen tried to stop the attacker, who tried to run towards the parade area.
In another incident, five policemen were injured in a bomb blast near a traffic police headquarters in the city of Gujranwala, some 60 kilometers from Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab.
Iqbal, a commander of the bomb disposal squad, said that a time device was used for the blast.
Attacks on police training centers have increased in parts of Pakistan in recent days especially after the army stormed the Islamabad's red mosque last month.
Source: XinhuaA suicide bomber and a police man were killed in a failed suicide attack on a police training center in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Thursday, police said.
The security men tried to stop a suspected bomber when he climbed the wall of the training center and entered the building in the city of Sargodha.
Police said that the suspect first fired at the policemen, killing an assistant sub-inspector and injuring another policeman.
The elite police force returned fire, killing the attacker at the scene.
The police found an explosive-laden jacket when they searched the body of the suspect, who wanted to blow himself up in the center.
The police also recovered a pistol and a hand grenade from the suspect.
District Police Officer Sheikh Muhammad Omar said that the alleged bomber, who was in the age of 22, was being identified.
He said that a police parade was the main target of the bomber, which was scheduled to begin after 10 minutes of the attack. Some 900 police recruits were supposed to take part in the parade.
He said that when the policemen tried to stop the attacker, who tried to run towards the parade area.
In another incident, five policemen were injured in a bomb blast near a traffic police headquarters in the city of Gujranwala, some 60 kilometers from Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab.
Iqbal, a commander of the bomb disposal squad, said that a time device was used for the blast.
Attacks on police training centers have increased in parts of Pakistan in recent days especially after the army stormed the Islamabad's red mosque last month.
Source: Xinhua



Taliban attack kills Afghan policeman, wounds three

A Taliban attack killed one policeman and wounded three others in Afghanistan's central Ghazni province, the police said Thursday.
Taliban militants ambushed a police van in Rashidan district on Wednesday evening and caused the casualties, Hajji Zaman, a local senior police officer, told Xinhua.
Ghazni has witnessed rising Taliban violence this year. Taliban militants abducted 23 South Koreans on July 19 and have executed two of them.
Due to Taliban insurgency, over 3,600 people have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
Source: Xinhua