Source/Credit: AFP/Friday:19.8.2011/
JAMRUD, Pakistan (AFP) – A suicide bomber struck a crowded Pakistan mosque on Friday, killing 43 people and wounding more than 100 during Ramadan prayers, in the country’s deadliest attack for three months.
Blood was splattered across the mosque’s main hall and walls, while the building’s doors and windows were destroyed and its ceiling fans mangled by the blast, according to an AFP reporter at the site.
Ball bearings used in the suicide vest were also scattered across the mosque in Jamrud town, 25 kilometres (16 miles) from Peshawar, the main city in the Khyber tribal district where much of the violence in Pakistan is concentrated.
The attack took place came as a US drone strike killed four militants in the northwestern tribal area of Pakistan which is awash with Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked networks and where US special forces killed Osama bin Laden on May 2.
More than 500 people had packed into the mosque and a senior official from the Khyber tribal district administration Sayed Ahmed Jan told AFP that the bomb had exploded seconds after the main prayer ended.
Categories: Pakistan
How crazy must these people be. Attacks on Mosques! Are they not afraid to go straight to hell?