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Tuesday, 06, Feb 2007 07:08
Pakistan's Islamabad airport was the location of the latest in a series of suicide bomb attacks today.
The male bomber approached the airport in a car but left the vehicle when challenged by a security guard, according to media reports.
After opening fire on security personnel the attacker detonated his explosives, injuring at least two people and killing himself.
"He hit two security guards straight with bullets. One was hit in the face and got bullets in the upper part of his body," airport security official Akram Khan told the AFP news agency.
One man, believed to have been in the car in which the bomber approached the airport, was arrested afterwards. The car park where the explosion occurred was cordoned off.
Today's explosion follows a series of similar bombings in north-western Pakistan. Analysts say a Pakistani air raid on Taliban militants sheltering in the country's semi-autonomous Waziristan region could have triggered the attacks.
On January 27th 11 people died and 30 more were wounded in Peshawar, one day after a guard died following a suicide attack in Islamabad.