Bomb kills 14 relatives in Orakzai

[Paan Singh]

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PESHAWAR: A bomb tore through a vehicle in Orakzai district on Wednesday, killing 14 members of the same clan, including three children, officials said.

“It was a remote-controlled bomb planted on the road. The bomb exploded near a pick-up van carrying passengers,” senior administration official Zakir Hussain told AFP of the incident in Sepoy village.

Eight people were killed on the spot and six died in a state-run hospital in the nearby city of Kohat, Hussain said.

The dead included three women, two 11-year-old boys and a three-year-old girl, he said. All the victims were part of the same clan or same extended family.

“It was a militant attack, the aim was to create panic in the area by killing ordinary people,” Hussain said.

Doctor Mohammad Naeem of Kohat District Hospital confirmed the toll and said that an 11-year-old boy with serious injuries was transferred to Peshawar for specialist care.

Orakzai is one of seven districts in the tribal belt on the Afghan border that is home to Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds.

Bomb kills 14 relatives in Orakzai: Officials – The Express Tribune

[KRAIT]

RIP............

[zimmick]

May the Soul Of Deceased Rest in Peace.

[CENTCOM]

It is sad to see fourteen members of one family killed brutally, including women, and children as young as three. What was their crime? And why did the terrorists target them? We all know the answer; it is only to spread chaos and panic among the public for the sake of enforcing their evil ideology. We strongly condemn this attack and send our condolences to the family and friends of the ones killed. We continue to see these daily deadly attacks that kill innocent people. It is time to become serious on these issues and tackle them head-on. All parties from both sides of the border need to get together and plan to go after the terrorists from all sides. People are seeing their true faces and that is the reason they have been rejected by the majority – although a few are still misguided. The time has come for all to reject these barbarians, and fully support our forces in their efforts to defeat the terrorists.


Capt. Joseph Kreidel
DET-United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

[Paan Singh]

It is sad to see fourteen members of one family killed brutally, including women, and children as young as three. What was their crime? And why did the terrorists target them? We all know the answer; it is only to spread chaos and panic among the public for the sake of enforcing their evil ideology. We strongly condemn this attack and send our condolences to the family and friends of the ones killed. We continue to see these daily deadly attacks that kill innocent people. It is time to become serious on these issues and tackle them head-on. All parties from both sides of the border need to get together and plan to go after the terrorists from all sides. People are seeing their true faces and that is the reason they have been rejected by the majority – although a few are still misguided. The time has come for all to reject these barbarians, and fully support our forces in their efforts to defeat the terrorists.


Capt. Joseph Kreidel
DET-United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

Dont u have english version on FB?
you provided URDU version which we cant understand...

[nick_indian]

RIP to the dead

[Roybot]

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Taliban claim Orakzai sectarian bombing that killed 14 – The Express Tribune

PESHAWAR: A faction of the Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a bomb attack in Orakzai that killed 14 people, a spokesman for the group said.

The roadside bomb exploded next to a passenger vehicle in the Sipaye area of the Orakzai tribal region, killing more than a dozen people in a sectarian attack targeting the Shia community.

“We targeted them because they were Shia, and they are enemies of Islam,” Mohammed Afridi, spokesman for the Darra Adam Khel faction of the Pakistan Taliban told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.