AFP - At least 24 people were killed Wednesday by a suicide bomber who detonated his bomb at a funeral in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, a country gripped by a deadly wave of bombings Taliban allied with al-Qaeda , police said.
The tragedy occurred at the funeral of the wife of a man fighting in an anti-Taliban militia, in the hamlet of Adeza, on the outskirts of large metropolitan France's northwest, located at the gateway areas tribal stronghold of Islamist insurgents.
"The bomber came on foot, his goal was the anti-Taliban militia members" who attended the funeral of the wife of one of them, told AFP by telephone Ijaz Mohammad Khan, an officer Peshawar police.
"At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 were injured," he added.
This new attack comes a day after a devastating attack at a service station near the offices of the powerful intelligence services in Faisalabad in central Pakistan, which killed 25 people and injured over 150.
Pakistan is experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks (over 450), mostly perpetrated by Taliban allied with al-Qaeda that killed more than 4,100 dead in three and a half years.
These insurgent groups and fundamentalist allies have ruled in the summer of 2007 and in unison with Osama bin Laden himself, jihad Pakistani government for its support for Washington since late 2001.
The attacks are mostly security forces - army, police, intelligence services - but also increasingly on civilian targets.
