April 2010 Kohat bombings

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April 2010 Kohat bombings
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Location of Kohat District (highlighted in red) within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
Location Kohat, Pakistan
DateApril 17, 2010
Target IDP camp & police station
Attack type
 Suicide bombing
Deaths58
Injured86
PerpetratorsLashkar-e-Jhangvi

The April 2010 Kohat bombings were a pair of bombings that struck a center for displaced people on the outskirts of the town of Kohat, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on April 17, 2010. [1] At least 41 people were killed, [2] while another 64 more were injured. [3] The next day another suicide bombing at a police station killed 7 more and injured nearly two dozen.

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Bombings

April 17

The bombings happened at the Kacha Pukha camp, [4] set up for internally displaced persons that had fled the Orakzai tribal area in north-west Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. [3] The victims were among 300 people [5] queued to register for aid at the camp. [6] The suicide bombers were reported to be wearing burqas, [7] and having set off their bombs within minutes of each other. [6] Most of the victims were from Baramad Khel and Mani Khel tribes who had fled fighting in Orakzai Agency. [8]

April 18

The next day another suicide bomber attacked a police station in response to military operations in Kohat killing 7 and wounding 21. The police chief of Kohat, Dilawar Khan Bangash, said: "It was a suicide attack. The target was a police station. The bomber exploded his vehicle on the back side of the police station. These incidents are a reaction to the military operation in the tribal areas." [9]

Responsibility

A Sunni militant organisation, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility. [10]

Response

In the aftermath of the bombings, the United Nations temporarily suspended operations assisting refugees in the Kohat region. [11] There are more than 200,000 internally displaced persons in the area of the incident. [12]

Pakistan's Defence Minister, Ahmad Mukhtar, called the attacks "highly barbaric and cowardly." [1]

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