Fresh Pakistan bombings kill 33
Thursday, 19 Jul 2007 13:16
Pakistan has been seriously destabilised in the wake of the Red Mosque siege
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At least 33 people have been killed in two separate bomb blasts in Pakistan.
Roughly 26 people were killed when a bomb exploded in the southern city of Hub in Baluchistan province.
The attack appeared to be targeting a convoy of Chinese workers passing through the city, although only Pakistani nationals were among the dead.
Initial reports are unclear as to what the nature of the bombing was. Some reports claim a car bomber was responsible whereas others suggest the explosives detonated from inside a nearby restaurant.
In a separate bomb blast seven were killed in Hangu, a city in the unstable North West Frontier province.
According to the Associated Press news agency 270 people have been killed so far this month, following violence triggered by the recent bloody siege of the Red Mosque in Islamabad.
Over 100 people are now believed to have died in the siege, which saw resistance from radical Islamists quashed through the use of force by unpopular president Pervez Musharraf.
A ten-month-old truce between pro-Taliban militants and Mr Musharraf's regime was ended in the wake of the Islamabad incident, prompting the latest wave of violence across the country.