2 blasts kill 15 people near Pakistan capital
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful bomb ripped through a bus carrying government employees today and was quickly followed by a second explosion near Pakistan's capital, killing at least 15 people and wounding several others, police an army spokesman said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful bomb ripped through a bus carrying government employees today and was quickly followed by a second explosion near Pakistan's capital, killing at least 15 people and wounding several others, police an army spokesman said.
The first explosion on the bus traveling through Rawalpindi killed at least 10 people, army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad said, without providing details.
And five people were killed when a second bomb went off in another commercial area of Rawalpindi, said Mohammed Afzal, an area police official. He said the dead and wounded had been transported to two different hospitals.
Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, and it has witnessed scores of bombings and other acts of terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001. Officials have blamed pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda elements for most of those attacks.






















