Suicide bomber, 12, kills 31 at Pakistan compound
By Fayaz Aziz | China Daily | Updated: 2011-02-11 07:44
A soldier searches vehicles carrying coffins into a paramilitary training center, which was attacked by a suicide bomber, in Mardan, northwest Pakistan on Thursday. A 12-year-old boy in a school uniform blew himself up at the Pakistani army recruitment center, killing 31 cadets, officials said. Fayaz Aziz / Reuters |
MARDAN, Pakistan - A 12-year-old boy in a school uniform blew himself up at a Pakistani army recruitment center on Thursday, killing 31 cadets, officials said, in an attack that challenges government assertions that it has weakened militants.
Photo