Twenty killed, forty injured in Mardan Cantonment suicide blast

By ANI
Thursday, February 10, 2011

MARDAN - Twenty security personnel were killed and forty others wounded in a bomb explosion at Mardan Cantonment in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday.

As per details, an explosion occurred in Punjab Regiment during a military parade, Dunya News reported.

The blast was so powerful that it shattered the windowpanes of the buildings in the cantonment area.

According to sources, it was a suicide blast. Police have cordoned off the area.

An Emergency has been declared in the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), where injured persons have been shifted. (ANI)

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