Suicide Attack in Pakistan’s Army Center Kills Top Army Medic
| 25 February 2008 |
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| Volunteers remove the dead body of a victim from the site of a suicide blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 25 Feb 2008 |
A government statement says the army’s surgeon general, Lieutenant-General Mushtaq Baig, was killed along with his driver, a guard, and at least five civilians in Monday’s blast. Twenty-five other people were wounded.
Rawalpindi is near the capital Islamabad, and is the site of Pakistan’s army headquarters.
This is the second time Pakistan’s military has been targeted in Rawalpindi this month.
In early February, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle hit a military bus, killing six people and wounding about 40 others.
Rawalpindi has been the scene of other major attacks, including the gun and suicide bombing that killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at a political rally last December.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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