Friday, October 16, 2009 PESHAWAR/pakistan: Thirteen people have been killed and many wounded in a suicide attack hit CIA police station investigation cell in cantonment area here.Interior minister has directed IG NWFP to submit report of the incident. According to Geo News correspondent Saiful Islami Saifi, a personnel present at the gate told that a person riding on a motorbike with a woman reached at the gate of the police station. When security official tried to stop the burqa clad woman, she detonated herself. Exchange of fire also took place between security personnel and motorbiker. At least thirteen ten people have been killed in the blast.The blast severely damaged the building of the police station and destroyed several vehicles. The injured including many prisoners have been rushed to hospital. Interior minister Rehman Malik, MQM chief Altaf Hussain , leader of ANP Zahid Khan and other political leaders have strongly condemned the blast.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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