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5 Killed, 12 Injured in Suicide Attack on Paramilitary Camp in NW Pakistan |
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Saturday, 24 December 2011At least five people were killed and 12 others injured in a suicide attack on a paramilitary camp in northwest Pakistan early Saturday morning, reported local Urdu TV channel Geo.
All the killed and the injured were paramilitary soldiers and the injured people have been shifted to a nearby military hospital, Xinhua quoted the report as saying.
The attack took place at about 6:00 a.m. Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a checkpost at a camp of Frontier Corps in the country's northwest Bannu district which is located near the insurgents-infested North Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan.
Residents were quoted as saying they heard a huge blast in the pre-dawn attack which was followed by heavy firing.
The security personnel have blocked all the roads to the attacked checkpost of the Frontier Corp camp sit in the outskirts of Bannu District.
One local media quoted its correspondent at the scene as saying that most parts of the camp were completely destroyed and death toll could further rise.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Some media quoted unidentified sources as saying that the vehicle entered the Bannu district from the nearby North Waziristan tribal region.
Saturday's attack on security forces is the second of its kind reported in the country in two days.
Earlier on Friday morning, armed militants attacked a security check post near South Waziristan tribal region and killed one security person and injured four others. The attackers also reportedly kidnapped several soldiers and a Taliban spokesman had threatened to kill the kidnapped security personnel.
Taliban militants have stepped up attacks after a lull in the wake of conflicting reports that they are engaged in talks with the government.
The Pakistani army and interior minister have denied the talks, but the deputy chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Maulvi Faqir Muhammad had confirmed the talks and even progress. |
Saturday, 24 December 2011
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