During an annual festival in Islamabad, Pakistan, three suicide bombers attempted to attack a Sufi shrine, Sakhi Sarwar, in Dera Ghazi Khan. Hundreds of worshipers were in attendance at the time of the explosion, leaving 42 people dead and over 100 wounded. Officials predict an increase in the death toll for several in critical condition. One of the bombers' explosive was faulty leaving him wounded and then arrested at the scene. Allegedly, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan took the blame for the attack in which was assumed to be another attempt to oppose the ideological divides within the school system of Sunni Islam. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani commented on the attack, “Such cowardly acts of terror clearly demonstrate that the culprits involved neither have any faith nor any belief in human values.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/asia/04pakistan.html?ref=world
Ana Foster
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