7 die in attack on consulate
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April 6, 2010, Tuesday
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ISLAMIST militants attacked a United States consulate in northwest Pakistan with car bombs and grenades yesterday, killing three people, hours after 41 people died in a suicide attack on a political rally elsewhere in the region.
The assaults illustrated the resilience of militants in the country despite intense army operations and US missile strikes in their northwestern havens near Afghanistan.
After the car bombs exploded at a checkpoint outside the consulate in Peshawar, militants dressed in security uniforms fired mortars or rocket-propelled grenades at the heavily fortified compound in an attempt to make their way inside, said a Pakistani intelligence official.
"I think they could not manage to get inside," provincial Senior Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour said.
The US Embassy in Islamabad said the militants attempted to enter the building and fired grenades and other weapons. It said no Americans were killed in the assault.
The three people killed in yesterday's attack were a paramilitary soldier, a private security guard and a civilian, said a police official. Four militants were killed during the attack and three other people were wounded, he said.
Shortly before yesterday's attack, a suicide bomber struck a rally held by a Pashtun nationalist party in Lower Dir, police said.
"A police official spotted the bomber a second before he exploded," said the police spokesman. "The official shot at him, but by that time, he had done his job."
A total of 41 people at the rally in the town of Timergarah were killed and 80 wounded, he said.
The assaults illustrated the resilience of militants in the country despite intense army operations and US missile strikes in their northwestern havens near Afghanistan.
After the car bombs exploded at a checkpoint outside the consulate in Peshawar, militants dressed in security uniforms fired mortars or rocket-propelled grenades at the heavily fortified compound in an attempt to make their way inside, said a Pakistani intelligence official.
"I think they could not manage to get inside," provincial Senior Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour said.
The US Embassy in Islamabad said the militants attempted to enter the building and fired grenades and other weapons. It said no Americans were killed in the assault.
The three people killed in yesterday's attack were a paramilitary soldier, a private security guard and a civilian, said a police official. Four militants were killed during the attack and three other people were wounded, he said.
Shortly before yesterday's attack, a suicide bomber struck a rally held by a Pashtun nationalist party in Lower Dir, police said.
"A police official spotted the bomber a second before he exploded," said the police spokesman. "The official shot at him, but by that time, he had done his job."
A total of 41 people at the rally in the town of Timergarah were killed and 80 wounded, he said.
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