30 killed in twin suicide blasts in Pakistan
May 13th, 2011 - 9:56 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 13 (IANS) At least 30 people were killed and over 40 others injured in twin suicide blasts Friday morning at a paramilitary centre in Pakistan, Xinhua reported.
The blast occurred in Charsadda city, some 30 km northeast of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, local Urdu TV channel Samaa reported.
The blasts took place at about 6.10 a.m. when a motorcycle and a horse cart, both laden with explosives, were rammed into a Frontier Corps (FC) training centre, when the troopers were returning after their morning exercise.
Most of those killed and injured were troopers.
The terror attack was the most serious in Pakistan since the killing of the Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden May 2 by US commandos in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Abbottabad.
Both Al Qaeda and Pakistan Taliban have vowed to avenge Osama’s death by threatening to launch attacks in Pakistan and in other places of the world.
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