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Tehrik-i-Taliban claim deadly UN office blast

Source: Dawn
Islamabad : Pakistan | about 1 month ago  
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  • Afghan man try to remove blood from the scene of a roadside bomb blast in Herat province
    Afghan man try to remove blood from the scene of a roadside bomb blast ...
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  • Police and security forces survey U.N. World Food Programme offices in Islamabad after a suicide bomb attack
    Police and security forces survey U.N. World Food Programme offices in ...
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  • Security forces move the body of a person killed by a bomb blast to an ambulance from a hospital in Islamabad
    Security forces move the body of a person killed by a bomb blast to an ...
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  • Security forces clear the way as they secure the site of a bomb blast at a U.N. compound in Islamabad
    Security forces clear the way as they secure the site of a bomb blast ...
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  • Pakistani security officials and rescue workers survey the site of a bomb blast in Islamabad
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  • Police, rescue workers and U.N. employees stand near the site of a bomb explosion inside a U.N. compound in Islamabad
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  • A policeman stands on the walls of the U.N. World Food Programme offices in Islamabad as smoke rises from the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack inside the compound
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The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a blast at a United Nations office in the capital which left five aid workers dead, a spokesman for the insurgents told AFP. ‘This attack was launched by us — we claim responsibility,’ Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP by telephone...
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