Suicide attack kills 48 in Pakistan mosque

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Suicide attack kills 48 in Pakistan mosque
Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:01am EST

By Ammad Waheed

CHARSADDA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber
killed 48 people in a mosque in northwest Pakistan on
Friday where a former interior minister was offering
Muslim Eid festival prayers with worshippers, the
government said.

The former minister, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao,
survived unhurt but at least 80 people were wounded in
the blast in Charsadda district in North West Frontier
Province. Several of the wounded were in a critical
condition, Interior Ministry spokesman Colonel Javed
Lodhi told Reuters.

Sherpao, who was interior minister in President Pervez
Musharraf's recently dissolved government and who is
now running in January 8 parliamentary elections, was
the likely target of the attack at the mosque in his
home village, the government said.

Sherpao, who heads a small pro-Musharraf political
party, escaped unharmed but his son was injured.
Sherpao had been injured in April in another suicide
attack at a public meeting in Charsadda.

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[aquart]

1. Yeah, Allah's gonna be real pleased with that.