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Bomb blasts in the North West Frontier Province - 2006

 

December 26: One person was killed and two are injured when a powerful time bomb, planted in a car, exploded in a parking area outside the Peshawar airport.

December 4: A police official was killed and another wounded when a foreigner, believed to be an Uzbek national, detonated explosives tied around his body when the police tried to search him in the Domail area of Bannu.

December 1: A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in the Defence Officers Colony area of Peshawar, killing one person.

November 6: Unidentified terrorists fired three Russian-made rockets at Peshawar. No casualty is, however, reported from any of the three places, located in the jurisdiction of Pishtakhara police station at a little distance from each other.

November 3: Militants fired four rockets at a Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) post in the Kungarpur area of Bannu. Bannu Police Deputy Inspector General Abid Ali said that only one rocket hit the FRP post and damaged the building. No casualties are reported.

July 2: Six paramilitary personnel are killed and seven others sustained injuries when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device near an Afghan refugee camp in the Lower Dir district.

June 2: At least five soldiers and two suicide bombers are killed and seven soldiers sustained injuries when a car laden with explosives rammed into a military vehicle in the Bakakhel area of Bannu. The army convoy was reportedly proceeding from Mirali in North Waziristan to its base camp in the Bannu district when the attack occurred.

March 19: A ten-year-old boy is killed and another child injured in a bomb explosion near a police station in the Mardan city. The boys had reportedly picked up a grenade from a nearby garbage dump and it subsequently exploded.

February 23: A bomb exploded at a video shop in Dera Ismail Khan, injuring at least four people. The explosion occurred in the commercial area of Zafar Colony, said Ghar Ali Khattak, the city police chief. Dera Ismail Khan lies about 250 kilometres southwest of Peshawar, the capital of NWFP.

February 9: At least 40 people are killed and 41 others wounded in a suspected suicide attack on a Muharram procession of Shia Muslims in the Hangu town. A series of explosions occurred through the procession in the main bazaar of Hangu town, some 200 kilometres northwest of Islamabad, between 9.30 am and 9.40 am local time.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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