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Islamabad : Pakistan | about 1 month ago

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UN office suicide blast

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UN office suicide blast
Security forces clear the way as they secure the site of a bomb blast ...

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ISLAMABAD:Again this is a terrible tragedy for World Food program and for the whole humanitarian community in Pakistan,Five people including two women and a foreigner were killed and four injured in a bomb blast at UN’s World Food Programme office, islamabad today at 12noon.four Pakistanis and one Iraqi national were killed Monday in a suicide blast inside a United Nations office in the heart of the capital Islamabad
Dead included Mrs. Gul Mukhtar, who was a receptionist, Mrs. Farzana Barkat, an Assistant at WFP and a foreigner Boton Ali, an Iraqi national. 100 employees work in the office.It was a well planned blast.Nature of blast still could not be confirmed
whether it was a parcel bomb or suicide attack.
the bomb blast occurred at the office near reception at 12noon. All died and injured persons were shifted to hospital. Police official Bin Yamin said the attacker, who was between 22 and 26 years old, detonated his explosives in the lobby, killing three people, including an Iraqi working for the WFP.
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The blast raises questions as to how the bomber managed to evade tight security at the heavily fortified office of the World Food Program. It could also hamper the work of WFP and other aid agencies assisting Pakistanis displaced by army offensives against al-Qaida and the Taliban in their strongholds close to the Afghan border.

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