TIMELINE - Recent bomb attacks in Pakistan

Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:14pm GMT
 
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(Reuters) - A teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded prayer hall in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 25, a government official said.

Here is a chronology of some of the major bomb attacks of the last six months:

July 14, 2007 - Suicide car-bomber kills 24 paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan.

July 15 - Sixteen people, most of them paramilitary soldiers, are killed in an ambush while on patrol in the Swat valley in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Separately, a suicide bomber targets a police recruiting centre in Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, killing 29.

July 17 - Suicide bomber kills 16 people outside a court in Islamabad, where country's suspended chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, was due to speak.

July 19 - Three suicide attacks in a single day in three towns kill at least 52 people.

July 27 - Suicide bomb attack in a restaurant near Islamabad's Red Mosque kills 13 people, most of them policemen.

September 4 - Two suicide bombers kill 25 in Rawalpindi.

September 11 - Suicide bomber kills 16 people in northwest Dera Ismail Khan.  Continued...

 

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