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Twin Pakistan suicide blasts kill 15 Zeeshan Haider and Augustine Anthony Twin suicide blasts killed at least 15 people on Saturday in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi adjoining Islamabad, the military said, including 13 aboard a defense ministry bus. A suicide bomber rammed a car into the back of the bus outside an intelligence service office, while another bomber blew up his car at a checkpoint outside army headquarters. The attacks come on the heels of a string of suicide bombings across Pakistan blamed on Islamist militants amid growing insurgency, and as the country heads towards a general election in early January in political convulsions under emergency rule.
(Article continues below) "There's a total of 15 people who have lost their lives in the attacks, two suicide bombers and 13 others," army spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad said. "Both were suicide attacks." "There were 50 people sitting in the bus. Many are injured, many are OK," he said. Officials had earlier reported the death toll was 16. A Reuters witness saw the charred remains of the bus just inside the gate of the intelligence service compound, before police cordoned off the area and put up tents to obscure the view. The burnt-out chassis of the car used in the other near-simultaneous bombing sat near the main gate to army headquarters, where three security personnel were wounded.
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