Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Three killed in an attack on a Spanish NGO in Pakistan

t least three Pakistani employees of the Spanish NGO Plan International were killed yesterday by an attack by a group of armed men against their headquarters in the town of Manshera, in the troubled northwestern Pakistan.
In this regard, the consul of Spain in Pakistan, Lucia Chicote confirmed that the workers killed were Pakistanis, even though at first it was reported that they were Spanish citizens, which term well being denied.
Likewise, the NGO Plan International, through its website, reported that the workers were killed when a group of between six and twelve irrumpieran armed men in the office of the NGO located in the said town of Manshera and detonaran three explosives. The office of Plan International, situated in this town of the province of North West Frontier were burnt as a result of the attack, in which fifteen people who were injured were taken to hospital, then they could be rescued by firefighters.

Another attack. Meanwhile, at least eight people were killed yesterday and about 25 were injured by a suicide bombing occurred in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi against a military medical center. Among the fatalities, is the chief surgeon of the Army, General Mushtaq Ahmedi Baig, who was travelling in the car target of the attack.

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