19 killed in courthouse bombing in NW Pakistan
This article was published November 19, 2009 at 8:02 a.m.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing 19 people in the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
The bombing was the seventh militant strike in less than two weeks in and around Peshawar, the largest city in the northwest. The attacks have killed more than 80 people.
The bomber, who arrived in a taxi, was being searched by police officers at the gate of the city’s lower court when he detonated explosives on his body, government official Sahibzada Anees said.
Several damaged motorbikes were strewn about the site, on the main Khyber Road, and firefighters sprayed water on a charred, smoking white car.
Dr. Saib Gul of the city’s Lady Reading Hospital said 19 people, including three policemen, were killed and 51 were wounded.
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