KOHAT: At least 11 people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed explosive-laden vehicle into the gate of a police station here, which turned the building of police station into rubble, Geo News reported Thursday.In suicide attack at Kohat Saddar Police station, at least four police vehicles were destroyed. Soon afterwards, emergency was declared in the hospitals and the security forces and police put security cordon around the area.The bodies of the deceased and injured in the attack and were taken to District Headquarters Hospital. According to hospital sources, two bodies could not be identified as yet.Kohat DIG Abdullah Khan also confirmed the killings of 11 people in the attack including three police personnel and 20 others were injured, of them, nine injured have been discharged after giving first aid.Abdullah Khan told Geo News that at least 100-kg explosives were used in the blast, adding a brown-coloured double-cabin vehicle, which came from Rawalpindi Road, was used in the attack.The police official said Saddar police station was the target of terrorists.The DIG Kohat said an investigation team headed by DIPO Dilawar Khan Bangash has been instituted. The team garnered clues fro the blast site.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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