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| Deadly blast hits Pakistan city | Deadly blast hits Pakistan city |
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| At least 30 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bombing in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. | At least 30 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bombing in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. |
| Police told the BBC a bomber detonated in a car park beside a hotel and a bank. More than 40 people were injured, including women and children. | |
| The blast struck a busy area where security is controlled by the military, not far from army headquarters. | The blast struck a busy area where security is controlled by the military, not far from army headquarters. |
| Last week, more than 100 people were killed after a huge car bomb ripped through a busy market in Peshawar. | Last week, more than 100 people were killed after a huge car bomb ripped through a busy market in Peshawar. |
| AT THE SCENE Shahzad Malik, BBC Urdu | |
| The blast took place in the car park near a branch of the National Bank of Pakistan. Most of those killed had come to pay bills or collect wages as it was the start of the month. | |
| Casualties were high as there was a long queue which stretched into the car park. Most of the vehicles there were destroyed. | |
| Ambulances were taking away the injured when I arrived, as security forces combed the area for clues. | |
| The area is in the Chaklala military cantonment, a high-security zone. | |
| An army residential area and military installations are adjacent. The scene is on the same road as Pakistan's military HQ, half a kilometre away. | |
| Similar attacks have killed about 300 people since mid-October when the army launched an operation against Taliban militants in South Waziristan. | Similar attacks have killed about 300 people since mid-October when the army launched an operation against Taliban militants in South Waziristan. |
| The ongoing violence in the country led the United Nations to announce on Monday that it was withdrawing international staff from north-west Pakistan. | |
| UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that the decision had been taken "bearing in mind the intense security situation in the region". | UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that the decision had been taken "bearing in mind the intense security situation in the region". |
| Monday's blast took place in a car park behind the four-star Shalimar hotel, Rawalpindi police chief Aslam Tareen told the BBC. | |
| The car park is next to a branch of the National Bank of Pakistan, outside where customers had been queuing. | |
| One survivor, Rizwan Mehmood, told BBC Urdu he had come to the bank to pay a traffic fine when the explosion went off. | |
| "Just before the blast I saw a woman with three children in a vehicle in the car park," he said. | |
| "After the blast, I saw the car in which they were sitting in and it was completely destroyed." | |
| Wanted, dead or alive | |
| Some of the victims were elderly people who had come to the bank to withdraw pensions, officials said. | |
| Pakistan offers Taliban bounties Bold tactics stun Pakistan Who are the Taliban? | |
| "We were sitting on the second floor of our office. It was a huge blast," Raja Sher Ali, a marketing manager in a local company, told AFP news agency. | "We were sitting on the second floor of our office. It was a huge blast," Raja Sher Ali, a marketing manager in a local company, told AFP news agency. |
| "Our building shook as if in an earthquake and when we came out there was smoke everywhere and body parts were thrown into our office," she said. | "Our building shook as if in an earthquake and when we came out there was smoke everywhere and body parts were thrown into our office," she said. |
| The blast struck about half a kilometre from Pakistan's army headquarters, where militants carried out a deadly siege last month that claimed nearly two dozen lives. | |
| Monday's attack came as Pakistan's government offered rewards totalling $5m (£3m) for information leading to the capture of three Taliban leaders and 15 of their commanders. | Monday's attack came as Pakistan's government offered rewards totalling $5m (£3m) for information leading to the capture of three Taliban leaders and 15 of their commanders. |
| In a front-page advertisement on Pakistan's daily, The News, the largest sum of $600,000 was promised for the capture - dead or alive - of the group's leader Hakimullah Mehsud. | In a front-page advertisement on Pakistan's daily, The News, the largest sum of $600,000 was promised for the capture - dead or alive - of the group's leader Hakimullah Mehsud. |
| It said his Tehrik-e-Taliban group was involved in acts of terrorism that were causing the death of innocent Muslims on a daily basis. | It said his Tehrik-e-Taliban group was involved in acts of terrorism that were causing the death of innocent Muslims on a daily basis. |
| Since launching its South Waziristan offensive on 17 October, the military has captured Kotkai, the birthplace of the Hakimullah Mehsud. | Since launching its South Waziristan offensive on 17 October, the military has captured Kotkai, the birthplace of the Hakimullah Mehsud. |
| On Sunday the army said it was on the outskirts of Sararogha and Makeen, also strongholds of the Pakistani Taliban leader. | On Sunday the army said it was on the outskirts of Sararogha and Makeen, also strongholds of the Pakistani Taliban leader. |
| MILITANT ATTACKS SINCE 5 OCTOBER 28 Oct - At least 118 killed by a car bomb in a market in Peshawar 23 Oct - At least 22 killed in three attacks in northern Pakistan 20 Oct - Eight die in the twin blasts at a university in Islamabad 16 Oct - Twelve die in a bombing in Peshawar 15 Oct - About 40 die in a series of gun and bomb attacks 12 Oct - Security convoy attacked in Swat valley, 41 die 10 Oct - Militants attack Rawalpindi army HQ - 20 killed 9 Oct - At least 50 die in Peshawar suicide blast 5 Oct - Five killed in suicide bomb at UN Islamabad offices | MILITANT ATTACKS SINCE 5 OCTOBER 28 Oct - At least 118 killed by a car bomb in a market in Peshawar 23 Oct - At least 22 killed in three attacks in northern Pakistan 20 Oct - Eight die in the twin blasts at a university in Islamabad 16 Oct - Twelve die in a bombing in Peshawar 15 Oct - About 40 die in a series of gun and bomb attacks 12 Oct - Security convoy attacked in Swat valley, 41 die 10 Oct - Militants attack Rawalpindi army HQ - 20 killed 9 Oct - At least 50 die in Peshawar suicide blast 5 Oct - Five killed in suicide bomb at UN Islamabad offices |
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