Suicide Attack Kills 7 in Pakistan

Assailant targeted compound of Pervez Musharraf
By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 30, 2007 6:16 AM CDT
Suicide Attack Kills 7 in Pakistan
Pakistani rescue workers remove a dead body at the site of a suicide bombing in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007. A suicide attacker blew himself up near the office of Pakistan's military president on Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring several more, officials said. (Anjum...   (Associated Press)

A suicide bomber blew himself up in Pakistan today near the office of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, killing seven people and injuring 11 more, the AP reports. The blast took place at a checkpoint in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the army's headquarters where Musharraf works. No organization has claimed responsibility for the blast, but officials are treating the attack as an assassination attempt.

Pakistani television showed images of children's schoolbags abandoned on a minibus with its windows blown out. Two of the dead are said to be police. Today's blast is only the latest disturbance as the nation prepares for parliamentary elections in which Benazir Bhutto will contest the premiership: the government is battling a militant uprising in the northwest, which has been rocked by suicide attacks in recent days. (More Benazir Bhutto stories.)

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