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Suicide bomb hits Pakistan elders: 15 dead 40 seriously injured

by Amitjha | October 10, 2008 at 04:31 am

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If i strat counting death figure what i have reported today .........it is arround...oho how can i make any life a round figure....well exactly 200 deaths.This is latest story from pakistan, where atleast 15 elders died and more than 40 are seriously injured, in a bomb blast. Early in the morning i reported the death of 25 children in an accident.

The blast struck a council of local leaders in the Orakzai district, one of Pakistan's seven semi-autonomous tribal regions.

They were meeting to decide how to evict Taleban from the region when the attack took place.

Orakzai has been the most calm of the seven semi-autonomous tribal regions.

"We were busy in raising a lashkar [tribal militia] to evict Taleban from the region when this attack took place," Qeemat Khan Orakzai, a member of the council, told Reuters news agency.

More than 50 people were wounded when the attacker targeted a gathering of about 500 people from the Alizai tribe on Friday, according to AP news agency.

Pro-Taleban militants on the Pakistan side of the border have been blamed for a rise in attacks on US and Nato troops in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's government has been courting the tribes to persuade them to stand up to the insurgents