06-03-2008, 04:20 AM
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Pioneer.com
Muhammad Najeeb | Islamabad
Up to eight people, including possibly a foreigner, were killed in a suicide car bombing <b>outside the visa section of the Danish embassy</b> here on Monday. The powerful blast, heard in a radius of five kilometres, also damaged windowpanes of the<b> nearby India House, the Indian envoy's official residence</b>.Â
The attack took place around 1 pm when a car packed with about<b> 30 kg of explosives at the parking stand of the mission exploded with a deafening roar, damaging nearby buildings and setting many cars and trees ablaze</b>.
The explosion was so massive that the car's engine landed some 300 feet away. A three feet deep crater developed on the road outside the Danish mission. About 20 people were injured, a few seriously. Panic gripped the area.
It was the first suicide attack after a new civilian government took office in Islamabad in March.
The blast partially damaged the diplomatic mission's building and an adjacent office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the posh Islamabad neighbourhood of F6 district. The windowpanes of the nearby India House were shattered.
India's High Commissioner, Satyabrata Pal, was having lunch when the bombing took place. He and the other residents of India House were safe, officials said. The authorities explained that the target of the attack was the Danish embassy and linked it to the Prophet Mohammed cartoons the Danish and Norwegian media published two years ago
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Pioneer.com
Muhammad Najeeb | Islamabad
Up to eight people, including possibly a foreigner, were killed in a suicide car bombing <b>outside the visa section of the Danish embassy</b> here on Monday. The powerful blast, heard in a radius of five kilometres, also damaged windowpanes of the<b> nearby India House, the Indian envoy's official residence</b>.Â
The attack took place around 1 pm when a car packed with about<b> 30 kg of explosives at the parking stand of the mission exploded with a deafening roar, damaging nearby buildings and setting many cars and trees ablaze</b>.
The explosion was so massive that the car's engine landed some 300 feet away. A three feet deep crater developed on the road outside the Danish mission. About 20 people were injured, a few seriously. Panic gripped the area.
It was the first suicide attack after a new civilian government took office in Islamabad in March.
The blast partially damaged the diplomatic mission's building and an adjacent office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the posh Islamabad neighbourhood of F6 district. The windowpanes of the nearby India House were shattered.
India's High Commissioner, Satyabrata Pal, was having lunch when the bombing took place. He and the other residents of India House were safe, officials said. The authorities explained that the target of the attack was the Danish embassy and linked it to the Prophet Mohammed cartoons the Danish and Norwegian media published two years ago
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