Over 30 Dead in Pakistan Bombing

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Source: New York Times

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A powerful explosion blamed by police on a suicide bomber killed more than 30 people and injured at least 50 on Friday in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan, according to residents and Pakistani television reports..

The bombing, which targeted the funeral of a Shiite Muslim man who had been shot in the city a day earlier, set off a chain reaction of chaos in the city of about a million people on the edge of Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas.

Enraged mobs attacked local security forces, ransacked shops and surrounded hospitals as members of the funeral procession struggled to secure treatment for the wounded, according to the mayor, Abdur Rauf.

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“I heard a huge explosion,” said Athar Shah, a resident reached by telephone. “We saw dead bodies and blood. We took the injured to the hospital.” But the main hospital for civilians did not have a doctor on duty, Mr. Shah said. When the wounded were taken to the military hospital in the city, staff there said they could not treat so many people.





Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/world/asia/21pstan.html?ref=world

[bdamomma]

1. there are no words for all this killing.