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Four killed in three separate blasts in Pakistan

Source: PTI
Last updated on: June 13, 2011 18:11 IST
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In the first suicide attack in the Islamabad in nearly two years, a teenage bomber on Monday blew himself up outside a private bank killing at least one person and injuring several others, while two more blasts in the country's restive areas claimed three lives and left six people wounded.

The bomber detonated his explosive vest when he was stopped by a security guard, as he tried to enter the bank at the market in Islamabad's Sector I-8, police said. The guard who stopped the bomber was killed and several others were injured, they said.

Officials at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences said they had received one body and three injured persons. The condition of two wounded was described as serious.

The police said they had found the head of the bomber, who appeared to be about 18 to 19 years old. He was dressed in a salwar kameez and approached the bank on foot.Footage on television showed the facade of the private bank was destroyed by the powerful blast. All the windows were blown out and the ceiling collapsed. Pieces of metal and tangled wires hung at the entrance of the bank.

No group claimed responsibility for the blast.

Monday's suicide attack was the first in the Pakistani capital since December 2009, when a bomber attacked the navy headquarters, killing one person. Three persons, including a teenage boy, were injured when an explosive device went off beside a road on the outskirts of Islamabad on Sunday.

In another blast on Monday, three Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others injured when a military convoy was targeted with a roadside bomb in the restive South Waziristan tribal region.

The bomb was detonated by remote control and destroyed a vehicle, officials were quoted as saying by television news channels. The soldiers were on a routine patrol when the convoy was attacked.

Separately, at least two persons were injured when a bomb went off near a police complex in Quetta city in southwest Pakistan.

The blast occurred near the Police Lines at Gulistan Road in Quetta, the capital of the restive Balochistan province, TV news channels quoted officials as saying.

The nature of the blast could not immediately be ascertained. The explosion damaged several nearby buildings. A suicide attack on a police officer's home in the same area of Quetta on April 7 had killed a policeman and injured nine more.

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