Wedding blast kills 16 in Swat

SWAT—Sixteen people were killed and 10 others injured when a vehicle of carrying marriage guests was attacked with a remote control bomb device here in Matta, sources said. A double cabin vehicle carrying guests of a marriage was attacked with a remote control bomb device, killing 13, most of them children. 13 others were injured. The incident took place near the residence of District Nazim, Jamal Nasir. Emergency was declared in Matta and Saeedo Sharif hospitals where bodies and injured have been shifted. Three critically injured persons later succumbed to their injuries in the hospital raising the total death toll to 16.
A roadside bomb ripped through a vehicle carrying wedding guests in northwestern Pakistan Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding a dozen others, the interior ministry said. The blast in the troubled Swat Valley, where Islamist militants linked to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are active, was the first since Pakistan held largely peaceful parliamentary elections on Monday. “The vehicle was carrying people from a wedding ceremony when it was hit by an improvised explosive device in Swat region,” interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told.—Agencies