Eight people killed in Kamra suicide bombing

Source: Daily Times

Staff Report

KAMRA: Eight people — including two security personnel — were killed and 15 others injured when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, rumoured to store planes carrying nuclear warheads. However, following the blast, an air force official dispelled these rumours.s.

“Initial reports indicate six casualties, including the two security personnel and four civilians,” a press release issued by the Pakistan Air Force stated. However, Shaukat Sultan — head of the government hospital in Kamra — told Reuters that eight people had been killed and 13 wounded.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has accepted responsibility for Friday’s suicide attack and the target killing of Brigadier Moin in Islamabad on Thursday, a private TV channel reported. TTP spokesman Azam Tariq claimed these attacks in a telephonic conversation, adding his group would not rest until US sympathisers were eliminated. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani condemned the attack in separate messages and vowed the government would not rest until the terrorists had been eliminated, APP reported.