World | Pakistan
At least 15 killed in blast near Pakistan Red Mosque
At least 15 people were killed in an apparent suicide bomb attack near the Red Mosque in Islamabad on Sunday, police and officials said.
- Agencies
- Published: 14:40 July 6, 2008
- The 2007 siege of the Red Mosque was spurred after tension over an increasingly violent anti-vice campaign led by the mosque's administrators.
- Image Credit:
Islamabad: At least 15 people were killed in an apparent suicide bomb attack near the Red Mosque in Islamabad on Sunday, police and officials said.
"It appears to have been a suicide bombing. More than 10 people were killed," said top city official Rana Akbar.
A witness said he saw at least seven dead policemen at the site of the blast.
Thousands of Islamists gathered in Islamabad to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on the radical Red Mosque or Lal Masjid.
Attendees included clerics and Islamist students. Many wore red prayer caps in remembrance of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the deputy cleric of the mosque who was killed in the operation.
Armed police manned roadblocks nearby and traffic was diverted. Many streets around the mosque were blocked off with barbed wire.
Share this article
News Editor's choice
-
Ajtebi's phenomenal assent
The former camel jockey was at the peak of his powers when upstaging Garret Gomez
-
US pushing for more aid to Philippines
Obama administration eyeing $667m security assistance package
-
Mohammad launches H1N1 campaign
Shaikh Mohammad was the first one to receive the H1N1 vaccine.
