Saturday, April 28, 2007

Suicide Bomber Kills 26 in Pakistan

A suicide bomber blew himself up and killed at least 26 others in Pakistan today:

A suicide bomber on Saturday killed at least 26 people and wounded scores of others, including Pakistan Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao who said he had been the target of the attack.

The blast occurred as people gathered around Sherpao at the end of a public meeting in Charsadda, a town 20 km northeast of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.

Please pray for the families of the victims and all of their loved ones.  With all that went on at Viriginia Tech last week, the reality of this is all the more real for me.  I can't imagine what the families of the victims must be going through right now and the concern of those who don't yet know if their loved ones are safe.

1 comment:

jeremy h. said...

Brian,
This sort of thing happens every day in Iraq. On the same day as this Pakistan incident, 163 Iraqis and 9 GIs were killed in Iraq (including 66 in a single car bomb incident).