MIRPUR : At least eleven persons, including mourners and policemen were killed and over 80 others injured, 15 of them seriously as a result of a suicide attack on a Muharram procession near main Imam Bargah in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Sunday evening, police said. A suicide bomber blew himself up when he was intercepted by the security men of a mourners procession of 9th Muharram.
The procession, when attacked, was passing through near a police barricade in front of Markazi (Central) Imam Bargah at CMH Road at about 6.30 pm, a senior Capital Police Officer told APP.
He said the exact number of casualties and injured was still awaited since all the injured have immediately been rushed to CMH Muzaffarabad where some were in precarious condition. Security has been alerted in the capital city of AJK and army was called in to assist the civil administration in maintaining peace and order in the area. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani telephoned AJK Prime Minister, Raja Farooq Haider and strongly condemned the suicide bomb blast at Muzaffarabad in which innocent lives were lost and many people were injured.
The Prime Minister conveyed his heartfelt condolences and sympathies with the victims families and said that those playing with the lives of the innocent people would not escape the wrath of Allah and law of the land.
He said that such kind of cowardly acts could not weaken the government's firm resolve to fight the menace of militancy and stamping out this menace form the country.
The Prime Minister announced financial assistance of Rs 500,000 for each victim's family and Rs 100,000 for each inured. The Prime Minister prayed for the eternal peace of the departed souls and courage to the bereaved families to bear this immense loss with fortitude. He also wished the early recovery of the injured.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2009
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