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Mar 23, 2009, 17:46 GMT

Suicide bombing kills a policeman in Pakistani capital (Roundup)

Islamabad - A policeman was killed and several people were injured on Monday in a suicide bombing outside an office of the police's intelligence wing in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, security officials said. The bomber blew himself up when a police guard stopped him at the gate of the police's special branch, located in the heart of the city, just a few hundred yards away from the headquarters of the premier military Inter-Service Intelligence agency. 'One policeman died in the explosion while another was critically wounded,' Interior Secretary Kamal Shah said. Several civilians were also injured. The blast damaged a mosque adjacent to the police office. A witness said the suicide bomber was in his 20s. 'He argued with the police guard for quite some time and then detonated himself,' said Ramzan Ahmad. Pakistan has seen a series of suicide attacks over the last two years, including several in Islamabad and its adjoining garrison city of Rawalpindi. Last week, 11 people died in a suicide bombing on a busy street near a bus depot in Rawlapindi and more than a dozen were injured. 'Both attacks are inter-linked. Their objective is to scare the security personnel,' Pakistan's top security official Rehman Malik told reporters at the scene.

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