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Boy bomber kills 31 at army camp
A boy wearing school uniform blew up himself at a Pakistan army training centre, killing 31 people and injuring some 40 others.
The suicide bomber walked into the Punjab Regiment Centre in the northwest town of Mardan. “The bomber struck recruits when cadets were busy in their morning training,” a military official said.
The army said some of the wounded are in critical condition. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani condemned the attack, describing it as cowardly.
No particular militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. However, the Pakistan Taliban have more than once carried out such attacks in the past.
Last March two suicide bombers targeted the Pakistan military killing at least 45 people in the city of Lahore. The dead including nine soldiers.
In 2009 the Pakistani Taliban militants disguised themselves as soldiers and attacked the army's headquarters in Rawalpindi and later took 42 people hostage in a nearby office building.
