Pakistan, another massacre in Punjab, 32 dead
A car parked at a gas station has gas massacre of 32 people today in Faisalabad, the third city 'of Pakistan and an important industrial center in the central province of Punjab, which is characterized by a strong presence of Christians. The attack 'was claimed by the main militant group Taliban with a phone call to an international news agency, which said that the goal was a seat of the secret service ISI, which is nearby and that has not 'been damaged.
The explosion, widespread destruction in what caused the explosion of some gas cylinders, resulted in the wounding 125 people, some of whom are in serious condition. The service station, three nearby buildings, including offices of the national airline Pia and dozens of parked cars were destroyed. Rescuers have worked hard to pull victims and survivors from the rubble. From what has been 'learned, the explosive was hidden in a car and the detonator and' was driven away. Speaking on a television local, the commissioner of police of Faisalabad, Tahir Husain, has ruled out the presence of a suicide bomber.
According to a spokesman of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the main active symbol in the northwest, and the attack 'was committed in revenge for the killing of militants of the movement by security forces last year in the same Faisalabad. A few hours after the massacre, some missiles launched from a U.S. drone aircraft have killed at least five suspected Islamic militants in South Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan.
The last terrorist attack (this is not claimed by the Taliban) back to Friday 'last year. A bomb in a crowded mosque near the mausoleum of a Sufi in Nowshera (District dii-Paktunkwa Khyber, near Peshawar) had 11 faithful who were massacred in line to receive a meal.
It is estimated that in Pakistan about 4000 people died in bomb attacks, suicide bombings and acts of terrorism or the Taliban Pakistani groups linked to Al Qaeda since 2007, or after the siege of the Red Mosque in Islamabad to sign ' the beginning of the government's campaign against Islamic extremist groups in the country.
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