Bom Bunuh Diri Tewaskan 22 Orang Dekat Mesjid di Pakistan
Suicide Bomb Kills 22 Near Mosques in Pakistan
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
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Hangu (B2B) - Serangan bom bunuh diri Jumat menewaskan 22 orang, termasuk dua polisi, di sebuah pasar yang ramai di luar dua masjid untuk dua kelompok berbeda di kawasan bergolak Pakistan baratlaut, kata polisi dan petugas rumah sakit.
Sebanyak 48 orang cedera dalam serangan itu, yang terjadi di sebuah jalan sempit di kota Hangu yang memiliki masjid-masjid baik bagi kaum Sunni maupun Syiah.
Sejumlah pejabat mengatakan, Dewan Tertinggi Sunni anti-Taliban sering mengadakan pertemuan di masjid Sunni, dan mereka mungkin menjadi sasaran, seperti dikutip latimes.com
Namun, kepala kepolisian daerah itu Muhammad Saeed mengatakan, serangan tersebut ditujukan pada kelompok Syiah dan orang Sunni tanpa sengaja menjadi korban.
"Sebagian besar dari korban tewas bergerak keluar-masuk masjid-masjid di kawasan pasar itu setelah sholat Jumat ketika bom tersebut meledak," kata polisi senior Imtiaz Shah.
Hangu, bagian dari perbatasan Pakistan dengan Afghanistan, dilanda kekerasan sektarian antara kelompok-kelompok Sunni dan Syiah, yang sering memiliki masjid, rumah dan toko yang berdekatan satu sama lain.
Belum ada kelompok yang mengklaim bertanggung jawab atas serangan terakhir itu.
Hangu - A suicide bomber killed 22 people on Friday in a crowded market outside two mosques from separate Muslim sects in Pakistan's restive northwest, police and hospital officials said. Two of the dead were policemen.
Forty-eight people were wounded in the attack in a narrow lane in the town of Hangu that houses both a Shi'ite and a Sunni Muslim mosque.
Officials said the anti-Taliban Sunni Supreme Council often holds its meetings in the Sunni mosque, which made it a possible target.
But district police chief Muhammad Saeed said that the attack was aimed at Shi'ites and that Sunni Muslims were unintended victims.
"Most of the dead were moving in and out of the mosques in the marketplace after Friday prayers when the bomb went off," senior police officer Imtiaz Shah said.
Hangu, part of Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan, has been racked by sectarian violence between Sunni and Shi'ite tribes whose mosques, homes and shops are often close to one another.
Hangu is just a few km from Parachinar, which has a significant Shi'ite population against whom hardline Sunni militant groups have launched attacks for years.
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack by late evening.
