ISLAMABAD - BOMBERS targeted an air force base and an upmarket restaurant hours apart in Pakistan on Friday, unleashing fresh bloodshed in a 19-day wave of attacks that has left nearly 200 people dead.
As troops pressed a week-old offensive against the Taleban in the remote tribal belt, militants again brought the fight to the military's front door when a bomber blew himself up during morning rush hour in the town of Kamra, near the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC). Eight people were killed.
Several hours later, a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the main north-western city of Peshawar, wounding 15 people.
District police chief Fakhar Sultan said the attack in Kamra killed six civilians and two Pakistan Air Force personnel.
The Air Force said 15 security staff were wounded and confirmed two of its personnel died when the bomber blew himself up at the checkpoint on the road outside the base, about 60 kilometres (38 miles) west of the capital Islamabad.
The explosion in Peshawar was a car bomb, detonated in the wealthy district of Hayatabad, officials said. -- AFP
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