Suicide Bomber Kills 50 in Pakistan Mosque

There is a very good chance the country will blow up.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives Friday in a crowded mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 50 people and leaving more bodies buried in the rubble of the building, officials said.

The attack came just hours before President Obama in Washington introduced a new strategy to fight terror and extremism in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. The blast hit in the Khyber tribal agency, a semi-autonomous zone near the Afghan border that has been plagued by Islamist insurgents, criminal gangs and tribal conflicts. It is a busy cross-border corridor and was a major avenue for U.S. military supplies into Afghanistan until a series of armed attacks on convoys and truck depots last year made the route too dangerous to navigate.

The death toll is expected to rise to 70 by the time they finish pulling out the bodies and the gravely injured succumb to their wounds.

posted by Ace at 12:27 PM

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