{"id":1369,"date":"2011-03-10T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2011-03-10T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:23:00","slug":"deadly-attack-at-pakistan-funeral-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/03\/10\/1369\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly attack at Pakistan funeral procession"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"pk_attack_new_01\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/pk_attack_new_01.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"199\" \/>At least 36 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a funeral procession in north-western Pakistan.<br \/>Officials said the funeral was for the wife of a pro-government ethnic Pashtun tribal elder in Adezai village in the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was being attended by many anti-Taliban militiamen in the region. At least 40 people were wounded.<br \/>Several anti-Taliban tribal groups are based in the area and they are often targeted by the insurgents.<br \/>A spokesman for the Taliban told the BBC that they had carried out the bombing.<br \/>He said it was in retaliation for the support by local tribal militia of the continuing anti-Taliban operation by Pakistan&#8217;s security forces.<br \/>An injured man is taken into the hospital in Peshawar It is the second major bombing in as many days in Pakistan<br \/>Survivors of Wednesday&#8217;s bombing complained there was no police protection although the militiamen are targeted regularly.<br \/>The bomber targeted the funeral of the wife of Hakim Khan &#8211; a leader of the anti-Taliban tribal force in Adezai, some 15km (10 miles) from Peshawar city.<br \/>Mr Khan was instrumental in raising the force, known as a lashkar, with the support of the government to fight militants.<br \/>Correspondents say that it was not immediately clear if Mr Khan was killed or wounded in the explosion.<br \/>The procession was on its way to the cemetery when the attack took place.<br \/>&#8220;As we are readying for prayers, a boy wrapped in a shawl headed towards us. People shouted to the imam (prayer leader) to wait for him to join us but as he came close he blew himself up,&#8221; witness Mehmood Shah told the Reuters news agency.<br \/>The ground was strewn with the dead and wounded. Hats were scattered around and there was a pile of shoes left behind the victims.<br \/>Rescue workers were quick to reach the scene and the injured were taken to hospitals in Peshawar, where a medical emergency was declared.<br \/>The BBC&#8217;s Syed Shoaib Hasan in Pakistan says the militants aim to discourage local citizens from helping the security forces.<br \/>Adezai, located in the Mattani area, has been the centre of a tribal anti-Taliban force raised with the government support.<br \/>The head of the force, Abdul Malik, was killed in a bomb attack in 2009.<br \/>The area has also seen frequent Taliban attacks on police stations and security posts.<br \/>Until recently, the tribal anti-Taliban force had been conducting night patrols to discourage Taliban attacks but it ended some weeks ago as the government&#8217;s supply of arms and ammunition to the members of the force dwindled.<br \/>The attack comes a day after at least 26 people were killed and more than 120 injured in a car bomb explosion at a gas station in the industrial city of Faisalabad.<br \/>The Taliban said they were behind Tuesday&#8217;s attack. Most markets in the city were shut on Wednesday as residents mourned the dead.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: BBC<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 36 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a funeral procession in north-western Pakistan.Officials said the funeral was for the wife of a pro-government ethnic Pashtun tribal elder in Adezai village in the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deadly attack at Pakistan funeral procession - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/03\/10\/1369\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deadly attack at Pakistan funeral procession - 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