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Suicide Bomber Strikes in Northwest Pakistan

   VOA News 10 December 2010

   A  suicide  bomber  has  killed  at  least  10  people in northwestern
   Pakistan, the fourth such attack this week.
   Police  say  the  bomber  detonated  his vehicle outside a hospital in
   Hangu, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police say there are
   many injured, and that the death toll could rise.
   Reports  say  the  hospital  was  being  built  by  the area's Shi'ite
   community.  Friday's  attack  occurred  one day after the start of the
   holy month of Muharram, which is especially important for Shi'ites and
   is often marred by bombings by Sunni extremists.
   The  bombing  in  Hangu  comes  just  two days after a teenage suicide
   bomber killed at least 17 people in the nearby town of Kohat.
   On  Tuesday,  a suicide bomber tried to assassinate the chief minister
   of  the  southwest  province  of  Baluchistan,  wounding at least nine
   people but not harming the minister.

   On  Monday  two  suicide bombers killed 43 people when they attacked a
   gathering  of  anti-Taliban  militia leaders in Mohmand, in Pakistan's
   resitive tribal areas.

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