TIMELINE: Recent bomb attacks in Pakistan

Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:04am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - A suicide truck bomber attacked the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least 52 people and wounding more than 270.

Here is a chronology of some of the major bomb attacks in Pakistan over the last year:

October 19 - At least 139 people killed in suicide bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto's motorcade as the former prime minister is driven through Karachi after arriving home from eight years of exile. The attack is one of the deadliest in Pakistan's history.

November 24 - Twin suicide car bomb attacks kill 15 people in Rawalpindi, on the eve of the return of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from exile in Saudi Arabia.

December 21 - A suicide bomber kills at least 41 people in a mosque in northwest Pakistan during Eid festival prayers.

December 27 - Bhutto is killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in Rawalpindi. At least 16 others are killed in the attack.

Dec 31 - Violence flares as angry supporters of Bhutto take to the streets. The death toll of people killed in riots reaches 47.

January 7, 2008 - Al Qaeda-linked militants in northwest Pakistan attack two offices of a government-sponsored peace movement and kill eight people.

January 10 - A suicide bomber walks up to policemen stationed outside the High Court in Lahore and set off explosives. Nineteen people are killed, 16 policemen and 3 passers-by.

February 29 - A suicide attack on a police funeral in the district of Swat kills 40 people.

March 2 - At least 40 people are killed when a suicide bomber attacks a traditional tribal meeting in the tribal region of Darra Adam Kheil.

March 11 - Two suicide car bombers strike, killing 24 people, most of them in an attack on a government security office in Lahore.

March 15 - A bomb attack at an Italian restaurant in Islamabad, a favorite hangout for foreigners, kills a Turkish woman and wounds several others, including four FBI agents.

June 2 - A suicide bomber blows up a car outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, killing at least six people.

July 6 - About 18 people are killed in a suicide attack on police guarding Islamists who were marking the anniversary of an army commando raid on the Red Mosque in Islamabad.

Aug 12 - Thirteen people are killed and 10 wounded in a bomb attack, claimed by the Taliban, on an air force bus in the northwestern city of Peshawar.  Continued...

 
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