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By Jibran Ahmad
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 20, police officials said, the latest incident in a new surge of Islamist violence.
All three of the attackers were carrying hand grenades and AK-47 assault rifles, Ijaz Khan, police chief in the northwestern district of Charsadda, told Reuters.
One attacker blew himself up outside the court, while two were killed by policemen before they could enter the building.
“The terrorists had come and wanted to kill as many people as they could inside the judicial complex,” Khan said. “Five people were killed in the attack.”
Besides lawyers and judges, hundreds of litigants visit the building every day.
A spokesman for Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement emailed to media.
MORE: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/suicide-bombers-in-pakistan-kill-five-in-attack-on-court-/42976236
(Additional reporting by Saud Mehsud in Dera Ismail Khan Writing by Kay Johnson and Saad Sayeed; Editing by Robert Birsel, Mehreen Zahra-Malik)
Categories: Asia, Pakistan, Pakistan Military, Pakistan Police, The Muslim Times
Instead of imprisoning a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at on charges of reading The Holy Quran (or selling a copy) would it not be better for the Government forces to concentrate in finding those who arrange such terror attacks? (just wondering…)
While these gang of bloodthirsty goons claimed responsibility, did they give a reason for carrying out the attack?
Why do they carry out these attacks, anyway?
Having worked in Baghdad from 2003 to 2011 we can say that I was ‘near terror attacks’ for a long time, however, I still do not understand what can motivate people to kill innocent civilians … It just does not enter my brain?