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Car bomb kills 18 in Pakistani city of Peshawar
By RIAZ KHAN,Associated Press Writer AP - Saturday, December 6
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A car bomb devastated a busy street in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more.
Violence is spiraling in Pakistan's northwest just as the country faces rising tensions with India over the deadly terror attacks in Mumbai, raising concern for the nuclear-armed country's stability.
The bomb went off near Peshawar's famed Storytellers Bazaar early Friday evening, wrecking a mosque and a hotel and setting a string of vehicles and shops ablaze.
Mohammed Bilal, a 28-year-old goldsmith being treated at a city hospital for a gash on his face, said he saw a white van explode in the street as he was walking home.
"Something struck me in face, and I fell down. There was fire and smoke and the cries of the injured people," Bilal told an Associated Press reporter.
Television footage showed survivors frantically carrying bloodied victims through the rubble to private cars and ambulances as fire crews sought to douse the flames.
Javed Khan, a doctor at Peshawar's main hospital, said 18 bodies as well as 67 injured people were brought there. Many of the injured suffered severe burns, he said.
Police chief Malik Naveed Khan said the bomb seemed to contain chemicals designed to spread fire.
While police were guarding government and religious buildings, "it is not possible to prevent this kind of terrorism unless you have extremely credible information," he said.
Pakistani forces have stepped up operations against Taliban and al-Qaida strongholds in the northwest from where militants have been mounting attacks in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Insurgents have responded with a campaign of gun and bomb attacks. There has also been a rash of kidnappings and attacks on foreigners in the northwest, including the Nov. 12 shooting death of a U.S. aid worker in Peshawar.
Earlier Friday, a suicide car bomber killed six people at a checkpoint in the Orakzai tribal region, just south of Peshawar, after police and local tribesmen waved for him to stop.
In the nearby town of Bannu, police said militants armed with guns and rockets killed two officers manning another checkpoint.
Militants recently vowed to step up attacks on Pakistani forces in retaliation for cross-border U.S. missile strikes into the region, which is considered a likely hiding place for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
The region is also bedeviled by sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and mosques have been repeatedly targeted in what officials say are tit-for-tat attacks.
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