Friday, July 2, 2010

Fifty Killed in Pakistani Suicide Bombings; 200 Injured in Two Blasts at Holy Shrine

At least 50 people were killed today (July 2, 2010) in Islamabad, Pakistan, after a pair of suicide bombers detonated their explosive vests at one of that nation's holiest shrines, the CNN website reports.

More than 200 people were injured in the blasts outside the Data Darbar -- a famous Sufi shrine complex.

One bomb detonated in the shrine's courtyard; the other, in the shrine's lower level, according to Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed, Lahore's senior police superintendent.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan expressed alarm over the attacks and called on both the government and Muslim clerics to stand up to extremism.

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