Five Killed in Suicide Attack on Pakistan Military Bus

Source: Al-Manar TV, 4-2-2008
A suicide bomber rammed a motorbike into a bus carrying army medical trainees in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday, killing at least five people, officials said. The attacker struck during the morning rush hour outside the army's National Logistics Centre, near the headquarters of the
Pakistani army, police said. Security personnel cordoned off the area.
"It was a suicide attack, it appears that a man on a motorcycle rammed the bus," the officer in charge of the local police station, Basharat Abbasi, said at the scene.
"There are four to five people who have been killed and about 25 people have been injured." A senior security official said on condition of anonymity that four military personnel on the bus were killed, while a civilian believed to be in another vehicle hit by the blast also died. The bus contained personnel from a military medical school in the city, which is the heart of the Pakistani military establishment, security officials said.
Rawalpindi has experienced a series of attacks on security forces in recent months which have been attributed to Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants based in Pakistan's northwestern tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.