PAKISTAN: Injured victims from a bomb blast in a mosque arrive at Peshawar hospital

Record ID: 872639

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Injured victims from a bomb blast in a mosque arrive at Peshawar hospital
  • Date: 5th March 2011
  • Summary: PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (MARCH 4, 2011) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF LADY READING HOSPITAL/PEOPLE AND POLICE CROWDING/PARAMEDICS PREPARING STRETCHERS CARS CARRYING INJURED ENTERING HOSPITAL PEOPLE AND PARAMEDICS HELPING THE INJURED OUT FROM CAR INJURED ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL ELDERLY WOUNDED MAN BEING WHEELED INTO HOSPITAL CAR CARRYING INJURED DRIVING INTO HOSPITAL CRITICALLY INJURED INSIDE CAR UNCONSCIOUS MAN ON STRETCHER BEING WHEELED INTO WARD WOUNDED YOUNG MAN WITH BLOODIED CLOTH BEING MOVED TO STRETCHER FROM CAR YOUNG MAN HOLDING BODY OF ELDERLY MAN BODY BEING MOVED TO MORGUE ELDERLY WOUNDED MAN BEING WHEELED INTO HOSPITAL WOUNDED MAN BEING HELPED INTO HOSPITAL/ANOTHER INJURED ON STRETCHER AMBULANCES/POLICE AND PEOPLE OUTSIDE HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 20th March 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Pakistan, Pakistan
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  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA9MNF3UC0HT035TOZ98PL044C3
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  • Story Text: A bomb exploded in a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani town of Nowshera on Friday (March 4), killing at least nine people and wounding over 30, police and hospital officials said.
    The blast took place when food was being distributed among poor people after midday Friday prayers.
    The injured were immediately transported to Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
    A Nowshera police official said many people had left the mosque after prayers, otherwise losses would have been higher.
    Pakistan has seen a wave of suicide attacks in the past three years, many in the country's northwest frontier region with Afghanistan, where the Pakistan military is battling Taliban insurgents.
    The army has launched a series of offensives over the past two years in Pakistan's northwest, which it says have weakened the Taliban.
    Analysts, though, question their effectiveness because militants usually go on to establish strongholds elsewhere.
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