It was bound to happen sooner or later, but it is not that unusual. This is the third time a female homicide bomber blew herself up in the name of Allah, taking seven others with her.
I wonder what she is going to do with 72 virgins?
From ChannelNewsAsia August 11
Female suicide bomber hits Pakistan, seven dead
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A female suicide attacker and a handcart bomb targeted Pakistani police on Thursday, killing seven people in the first deadly attacks to hit the northwest during Ramadan, officials said.
The city of Peshawar, where the bombs struck, is on the frontline of a Taliban insurgency and borders Pakistan's lawless tribal belt that Washington calls the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda.
It was only the third time police have confirmed a woman suicide attacker in the nuclear-armed country of 167 million where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked bombers have killed 4,500 people since 2007, destabilising the government.
Dozens were wounded in Thursday's attacks, carried out several hours apart in the Lahori Gate area of Peshawar, a teeming city of 2.5 million, targeting first a police van and secondly a police checkpost.
"This was a female suicide bomber aged around 17 or 18 who threw a hand grenade on the police checkpost, 20 metres away from the site of the first blast, and then blew herself up," police official Shafqat Malik told AFP.
"Her vest did not explode completely. She was killed and another woman was also killed and three policemen were injured," Malik said.
There was initial confusion on whether the second woman was also carrying explosives, but police and medics later said she had not.
"The other woman is more than 60 years old. Her face is completely disfigured and beyond identification. Her body has no sign of wearing a suicide vest. We feel that she was just a passer-by," Doctor Rahim Afridi told AFP.
He said 16 people were admitted with injuries after the second blast, including a 10-year-old boy.
Police official Imtiaz Shah confirmed that the other woman was a passer by and had no connection to the woman, believed to have been around 17 years old.
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