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Toll Nears 100 After Pakistan Suicide Attack

Bomber detonated car during volleyball tournament

By the Associated Press

Posted Jan 2, 2010 10:06 AM CST

(AP) – A northwest Pakistani village that tried to resist Taliban infiltration struggled with grief today as families mourned 96 people killed in an apparent revenge suicide bombing at an outdoor volleyball game. The attack on Shah Hasan Khel village was one of the deadliest in a surge of bombings that have killed more than 600 since October, and it sent a bloody New Year's message to Pakistanis who dare take on the extremists.

As rescuers looked for bodies in the rubble, many residents in the village of 5,000 were too scared today to even speculate who carried out the blast. The suicide bomber detonated 550 pounds of explosives on the crowded field in the village during a volleyball tournament yesterday. The blast was probably intending to hit a nearby gathering of tribal elders who oversee an anti-Taliban militia. It leveled about three dozen mud-brick homes.

Local residents carry bodies of victims of Friday's suicide car bombing for funeral prayer in Shah Hasan Khel village near Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, on Saturday.
Local residents carry bodies of victims of Friday's suicide car bombing for funeral prayer in Shah Hasan Khel village near Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, on Saturday.   (AP Photo/Ghulam Akhbar)
Local residents gather beside the bodies of the victims of Friday's suicide car bombing in Shah Hasan Khel village near Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.
Local residents gather beside the bodies of the victims of Friday's suicide car bombing in Shah Hasan Khel village near Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.   (AP Photo/Ghulam Akhbar)
Local residents examine a damaged house at the site of Friday's suicide car bombing.
Local residents examine a damaged house at the site of Friday's suicide car bombing.   (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)
Pakistani paramilitary soldiers carry a casket of their comrade killed in Friday's suicide car bombing.
Pakistani paramilitary soldiers carry a casket of their comrade killed in Friday's suicide car bombing.   (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)
Local residents search for bodies in the rubble of houses collapsed by Friday's suicide car bombing.
Local residents search for bodies in the rubble of houses collapsed by Friday's suicide car bombing.   (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)
Pakistani paramilitary soldiers salute before caskets of their comrades killed in Friday's suicide car bombing.
Pakistani paramilitary soldiers salute before caskets of their comrades killed in Friday's suicide car bombing.   (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)
Local residents carry a body through the rubble of houses damaged in Friday's suicide car bombing in Shah Hasan Khel village near Lakki Marwat, Pakistan.
Local residents carry a body through the rubble of houses damaged in Friday's suicide car bombing in Shah Hasan Khel village near Lakki Marwat, Pakistan.   (AP Photo/Naveed Sultan)
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Tariq
Jan 3, 2010 12:51 PM CST
I blame the government and its allies 4 everything thats going on in the mid east, b4 9/11 u didnt hear much about suicide bombings any where but Palestine.

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