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<b>Powerful twin blasts kill 29 in Rawalpindi </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Islamabad, Sept 04: Islamabad, Sept 04: Bombs ripped through a bus and a market in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Tuesday, <b>killing 29 people including 10 Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission employees. The attacks happened minutes apart in sensitive military areas of the city, which is near the capital Islamabad</b>.

<b>The first explosion occurred in a bus ferrying Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission employees to work in the city`s busy Qasim bazaar, police said. </b>

Army spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said 17 people were killed in the blast which occurred at around 7.30 am and turned the white-coloured bus into a mangled heap of metal.

The second bomb planted on a motorbike went off 15 minutes later at the bustling r a bazaar killing at lest 12 people.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. "It is terrorism because innocent people were killed in both blasts," Arshad said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either bombing.

But a series of deadly attacks have rocked Pakistan since the military`s storming of the hardline Lal Masjid in Islamabad in July.

More than 100 people were killed in the siege and storming of the pro-Taliban mosque. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Lal Masjid or freedom fighter or Pathan fauji?