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'Terrorist' bomb rocks Islamabad airport


A bomb exploded at Islamabad international airport on Saturday sparking a terrorism alert in the Pakistan capital, police said.

The blast went off in a car park near the VIP lounge at the airport about 1:00 pm (0800 GMT) but there were no casualties, police said.

Kaleem Imam, police chief for the city of Rawalpindi, which includes the airport, blamed "terrorism".


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Security at Pakistan's airport tightened

Security at Pakistan's Islamabad Airport has been tightened after a bomb attack earlier today.

Tom O'Byrne reports from Islamabad that the bomb exploded harmlessly in the airport carpark.

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsdaily/s396063.htm

According to passengers in the VIP lounge, the briefcase was brought in by a man who waited for five minutes and then left. Several hundred people were in the lounge at the time of the explosion.

By last night no one had claimed responsibility for the bomb, but it was widely assumed that it was connected to Pakistan's support for the US-British attacks.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=100638