Suicide bomb at the office of the WFP, All of its representative office in Pakistan


Suicide bomb blast ripped through Pakistan again. This time the target was the headquarters of the UN food agency, World Food Program (WFP), in the capital Islamabad.

Five people were killed in the attack launched by a young man in the lobby of the UN office yesterday (5 / 10).

Tail, a few hours later the UN decided to close its representative offices throughout Pakistan. UN Spokesman said Ishrat Rizvi, the closure was only temporary.

"There is no serious threat to the offices of the other. Closure is done as a UN caution to prevent the next attack," explained Rizvi told the Associated Press.

Naturally, if the explosion was deadly afraid of making the United Nations. Therefore, the security of WFP are in fact complex and layered ekstraketat. No one could enter the office without the humanitarian mission through the metal detector first. All the luggage and bodies must be ensured that the visitors free of explosives and weapons.

Alleged perpetrators of 20-year-old can fool only officers disguised as personnel of paramilitary forces. "Perpetrators ask permission to the security officer to use the bathroom in the complex. Apparently, he was carrying explosives weighing eight pounds," said Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Bin Yamin, one of the Islamabad police personnel, said that the attack was launched by a single perpetrator. "We are still figuring out how the perpetrator was carrying a bomb without being discovered," he said.

Until the United Nations decided to close the office, not a single militant group that claimed responsibility for the attack near the residence of President Asif Ali Zardari's. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the blast that left a pool of blood at the WFP office.

"This is a serious crime against those who worked tirelessly to help the poor and helpless in famine-stricken Pakistan," said South Korean diplomat was from Geneva, Switzerland. Nevertheless, the UN would continue humanitarian mission in Pakistan.

Yesterday's bomb blast is the first attack against the UN in Islamabad since last June. At that time, a great explosion rocked a luxury hotel in the northwest city of Peshawar. Two UN staff were killed and several others injured. "The terrorists are like a wounded snake," said Malik, as reported by Agence France-Presse. Militants, he added, will continue to do a counter-attack because of government military operations make space for them to shrink.

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