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Suicide bomber now strikes Pak workers

35 killed; twin blasts rock Lahore, UN pulls out staff from northwest Pakistan

AFP, AP, Rawalpindi/ Lahore
A suicide bomber targeted workers queuing for their salaries outside a Pakistani bank and hotel yesterday, killing35 people, as the United Nations pulled expatriate staff from the northwest.
The twin blows to Pakistan eclipsed the military's announcement that troops had captured a key Taliban-held town as it stepped up a major offensive in the tribal belt and offered five million dollars for Taliban chiefs dead or alive.
Monday's attack, near army headquarters in Rawalpindi, turned another routine day into bloodshed for the second time in less than a week, showing the enormity of the threat that al-Qaeda-linked militants pose in Pakistan.
The blast showered the area with human flesh, smeared blood on the ground and shattered the windows of a multi-storey bloc housing the bank and four-star Shalimar Hotel.'
"Our bpilding shook as if in an earthquake and when we came out there was smoke everywhere and body parts were thrown into our office," Raja Sher Ali, a marketing manager in a local company, told AFP.
Meanwhile, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a police checkpoint near bus terminals at the entrance to Pakistan's city of Lahore late Monday, wounding seven people, a senior police official said.
The bombers struck after dark in the congested area on a link road to Pakistan's intercity motorway that dissects the country from die northwestern city of Peshawar to the capital Islamabad and east to Lahore.
"A car was stopped at the checkpost and the two suicide bombers in the car exploded themselves. We have found legs and a head," city police chief Pervez Rathor told reporters at the scene.
"One warden and two constables were critically wounded and four civilians are also injured.
The Lahore blast came hours after the Rawalpindi explosion, near die capital.
A surge in violence left more than 300 people dead last month as Pakistan presses a major offensive against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the tribal belt, where US officials say al-Qaeda are plotting attacks on the West.
A senior police official said the latest attack was the work of a suicide bomber, although rescue workers said the cause of the blast was still unclear.
"The suicide bomber came on a motorcycle and blew up close to people gathered to get salaries. We found parts of a suicide vest and some body parts of the suicide attacker," senior police official Aslam Tarin told reporters.
"Thirty-five were killed and more than 60 wounded," Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told a news conference. Four security personnel were among the dead and nine others wounded, the military said.
The attack struck near the upmarket Pearl Continental Hotel and Pakistan's army headquarters, where 10 gun men kept up a nearly 24-hour siege last month that left 23 people dead and deeply embarrassed the military.
Pakistan claimed more successes in its US-endorsed fight against Islamist networks, which have killed more than 2,420 people in a wave of suicide attacks and bombings within the nuclear-atmed Muslim nation since July 2007.
"Kanigurram is now under the complete control of security forces," Major General Athar Abbas told reporters, hailing what he called a "significant achievement" after two days of street battles in the town in South Waziristan.
Commanders on the battlefield have described Kanigurram as a major TTP "operational centre" and base for Uzbek fighters.