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Two Suicide bomberskill at least 35 people
By Times Staff Writer
Published November 24, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Suicide bombers hit a bus carrying intelligence agency employees and a checkpoint near the headquarters of the Pakistan army on Saturday, killing at least 35 people. The two attackers struck in Rawalpindi, a garrison city just south of the capital, Islamabad. A senior intelligence official, who asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work, said at least 35 people were killed. In the first attack, an explosive-laden car rammed a bus carrying employees from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, while the other bomber hit the checkpoint, said Mohammed Afzal, a local police official. The violence comes as Pakistan remains under a state of emergency, a move by President Pervez Musharraf that has prompted stiff criticism of the military ruler. Elsewhere Arabs join peace summit: Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations grudgingly agreed Friday to attend next week's U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, despite getting no guarantee of Israeli concessions. The Saudi foreign minister cautioned that there would be no public handshakes with Israelis at the gathering Tuesday in Annapolis, Md. India bombings: At least 13 people were killed and more than 60 were wounded Friday in nearly simultaneous bomb blasts outside courthouses in three cities in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. The Indian government blamed militants trying to incite tensions between Hindus and Muslims. Monkeys attack: A village in Indonesia's East Java province is under siege from hundreds of monkeys after their home was destroyed to make way for houses, the Antara news agency said on Friday. One villager said that about 30 macaques ransack her house every day searching for food. Swastika carved on girl: A 17-year-old German girl says four suspected neo-Nazis carved a swastika into her skin, police said Friday. The girl said she was attacked after trying to help a 6-year-old girl being harassed by the group in Mittweida. Three held the teen while a fourth carved a swastika on her hip with a scalpel-like knife, police said.
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