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Man arrested over girl’s shooting

Thusha KamaleswaranThusha Kamaleswaran was hit in the chest
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Police investigating the shooting of a five-year-old girl in south London have reviewed CCTV footage and say the investigation is “progressing well”.

Thusha Kamaleswaran was shot in the chest and fellow bystander Roshan Selvakumar, 35, was hit in the face at a shop in Stockwell on Tuesday.

They were gunned down when three youths on bicycles chased two youngsters into the shop and opened fire.

A £50,000 reward has been offered for information about the attack.

Both victims are now said to be in a serious but stable condition.

Police have revealed the three attackers chased two other youths into Stockwell Food and Wine before one of the trio fired shots into the shop front.

Det Ch Insp Tony Boughton said: “The investigation is progressing well. We have viewed CCTV of the incident and are now beginning to get a clearer picture of what happened.

“One of the youths who first ran into the shop has come forward and is assisting us with our enquiries.

“This is a societal problem – once the bullet has been fired it affects us all”

Claudia Webbe Trident public panel

“We are still trying to trace the other individual and appeal to him to come forward.”

Police are hoping to speak to anyone who saw the three youths cycling between 2000 and 2200 BST in Stockwell on the night of the attack.

The only description they can give is that they were black and rode bicycles.

Lambeth Borough Commander, Ch Supt Nick Ephgrave said: “We have drafted in to the area extra officers from the borough to reassure the public and to make it clear to anyone even considering being involved in violence that it will not be tolerated.

“Since Monday’s shooting, I have been speaking to many local people to let them know how the police is responding to prevent any further outbreaks of violence.”

Claudia Webbe is chairwoman of the independent advisory group to Trident, which investigates gun crime in the black community.

She said: “It is particularly sad when innocent bystanders and children as young as five become the victim of these violent and horrific shootings. Although incidents like this are isolated they have a huge impact locally.

“This is a societal problem – once the bullet has been fired it affects us all.

“The whole community is united in bringing these violent and cowardly criminals to justice.”

She added: “It is important to come forward to the police – whether you are a friend, mother, wife or daughter.”

There have been no arrests.

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Mexican attorney general resigns

Mexican attorney general Arturo Chavez, 25 September 2009Mr Chavez is the second attorney general to resign under President Calderon

Mexico’s Attorney General, Arturo Chavez, has resigned, President Felipe Calderon has confirmed.

Mr Chavez had been leading efforts to tackle Mexico’s violent drugs cartels and reform the justice system for 18 months.

He said he was leaving for urgent personal reasons.

Mr Chavez is to be replaced by investigative prosecutor Marisela Morales, who will be Mexico’s first female attorney general.

President Calderon thanked Mr Chavez for his service, saying he had helped bring many cartel leaders to justice.

“His work has been fundamental to Mexico’s efforts to establish the rule of law and guarantee security,” he said.

The appointment of Marisela Morales must still be approved by the senate.

President Calderon said her mission would be “to deepen the strategic role of the attorney general’s office, in particular in the fight against organised crime”.

Earlier this month Ms Morales, 41, was given a bravery award by the US government for her role in the fight against drug trafficking.

The resignation of Arturo Chavez comes three weeks after the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks released a US diplomatic cable describing his appointment in 2009 as “totally unexpected and inexplicable”.

In his previous role as the top prosecutor in Chihuahua state, he was accused of mishandling investigations into the murder of women in Ciudad Juarez on the US border.

He is the second attorney general to resign since President Calderon began deploying the army to fight drug-trafficking gangs in 2006.

Around 35,000 people have since been killed in drug-related violence.

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‘Bomb plot’ at Borussia Dortmund

Police tape near Westfalenstadion in Dortmund (31 March 2011)The devices were found in a car park near the 65,000-seat Westfalenstadion

German police say they have detained a 25-year-old man after three suspected explosive devices were found outside Borussia Dortmund’s stadium.

Three devices were also found in the flat of the suspect, who is German.

The Federal Criminal Police Office said he was arrested in Cologne on Tuesday after e-mailing anonymous tips about planned attacks to the authorities.

The interior ministry has sought to reassure the public, saying he had “no links to terrorist or Islamist” groups.

“The suspect was apparently acting on his own with a criminal motivation. There was no danger to any third parties at any time,” a spokesman said.

Michael Stein, a spokesman for the Dortmund police department, said: “We expect no security threat at all for the upcoming Bundesliga match on Saturday. The visitors are invited to come to Dortmund. They will be safe here.”

An investigation was begun by the police in February after an anonymous tip was sent to the German embassy in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, offering to provide information about two attacks being planned.

When the suspect was arrested, he admitted sending the e-mail tips and making up details of the attacks, officials said.

He then told officers about the explosive devices near Borussia Dortmund’s stadium and in his flat.

The Bundesliga leaders said the devices were found in a car park a few hundred metres from the 80,000-seat Westfalenstadion.

Tests have yet to determine whether they could have exploded.

Officials said they believed it might have been a blackmail attempt.

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Moffett: arrested man released

Bobby MoffettBobby Moffett was shot dead by two masked gunmen last year
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A man who was earlier arrested by police investigating the murder of loyalist Bobby Moffett in Belfast has been unconditionally released.

The former loyalist prisoner, was shot dead on Belfast’s Shankill Road, by two masked gunmen on 28 May 2010.

The International Monitoring Commission said the murder was sanctioned by UVF leaders.

No-one has been charged with the murder to date, although there have been a number of previous arrests.

There were calls for the UVF to disband after the murder, including from the man who founded its modern incarnation, Gusty Spence.

Hundreds of people attended a vigil for Mr Moffett in the Shankill area days after his murder.

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Britons given new Yemen warning

Anti-government protests in Sanaa, Yemen on 25 MarchProtests have been growing in Yemen in recent weeks
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The Foreign Office has urged British nationals to leave Yemen while commercial airlines are still flying, “in light of the rapid deterioration in the security situation”.

Protests in recent weeks have brought president’s Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year-old rule to the verge of collapse.

Updated Foreign Office travel advice says there is a “high possibility of violent demonstrations” on Friday.

It said the UK may be “unlikely” to be able to evacuate citizens in future.

Officials have been advising against all travel to Yemen since 4 March and urging British nationals to leave immediately since 12 March.

President Saleh has agreed to resign by January 2012, but the opposition and protesters are calling for his immediate departure.

The Foreign Office advice reads: “A rapid deterioration in the security situation is possible if negotiations between the president and the opposition breakdown.

“We call on all parties to make urgent progress in implementing much needed political and economic reform”

Foreign Office

“Routes in and out of Sanaa and the other major cities may be blocked and airports closed or inaccessible.”

In a statement, the Foreign Office said it was also “highly unlikely” to be able provide consular assistance in the event of a further breakdown of law and order.

It added: “We urge all parties in Yemen to exercise the utmost restraint and take all steps necessary to defuse tension on the ground.

“We call on all parties to make urgent progress in implementing much needed political and economic reform. The government of Yemen must take urgent action to build trust with the opposition and with the protesters.”

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Bronx Zoo’s missing cobra found – not far from home

The Bronx Zoo's Egyptian cobraThe Bronx Zoo’s Egyptian cobra was found coiled in a dark corner of the reptile house
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The Bronx Zoo’s missing deadly Egyptian cobra has been found “alive and well”.

The 20in (50cm) venomous snake was discovered in the zoo’s reptile house on Thursday morning, nearly a week after it escaped.

Officials say the cobra was coiled in a dark corner of the reptile house and that it is in good health.

The zoo’s reptile house has been closed since the snake went missing last Friday but officials say they hope to reopen it soon.

“When we are certain that the snake is in good condition, we will reopen the Reptile House and plan to have the animal on exhibit,” a statement by the zoo said.

The zoo spread the good news via Twitter, saying: “FOUND! Bronx Zoo cobra found alive & well in Reptile House in non-public area. The key was patience.”

Zoo officials had earlier said they were confident the adolescent Egyptian cobra was hiding in a non-public area of the Reptile House but conceded that finding it would be difficult.

In the days that it was missing, the snake became something of a celebrity, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers on a Twitter account set up in its name.

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Irish banks need extra 24bn euros

Irish Life buildingIrish Life & Permanent is expected to move into government ownership
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The true cost of the Irish banking crisis is expected to be revealed later when the outcome of government stress tests on banks is released.

The results are expected to show they need an extra 30bn euros (£26.3bn).

The Irish Central Bank has tested four lenders – Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland, Educational Building Society and the Irish Life and Permanent.

The latest capital injection will come from the EU-IMF bail-out money agreed in November.

It will take the total amount poured into the Irish banks since the financial crisis began to approximately 73bn euros (£64.1bn).

Once the results of the tests are released, Irish Life and Permanent, the country’s largest provider of mortgages and private pensions, is expected to move into government ownership.

That will give the state an interest in all six Irish financial institutions.

The 85bn euros (£74.6bn) bail-out deal at the end of last year was in response to the massive losses run up by Irish banks as well as the government’s own swelling budget deficit.

The deal divided the money into 30bn euros (£26.3bn) for propping up the banking system and 50bn euros (£43.9bn) to fund day-to-day government spending.

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US Congress hones budget cut deal

Michele Bachmann addresses a Tea Party rally on ThursdayTea Party adherents demand even larger cuts, which Democrats warn could harm the economic recovery
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US congressional leaders continue to labour on a deal that could cut a record $33bn (£20.6bn) from the government budget by October.

But Republican House Speaker John Boehner warned on Thursday that a final agreement had not been reached.

Members of the anti-big government Tea Party movement held a rally in Washington DC to demand greater cuts.

Without a budget agreement of some kind, much of the US government will shut down on Friday 8 April.

Mr Boehner and Democratic negotiators including Vice-President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have reportedly agreed tentatively to the $33bn figure, although Mr Boehner said on Thursday the figure was not final.

“We are going to fight for all of the spending cuts that we can get,” Mr Boehner, of Ohio, told reporters.

“We control one half of one third of the government here in Washington. We can’t impose our will on another body. We can’t impose our will on the Senate. All we can do is to fight for all of the spending cuts that we can get an agreement to.”

Many analysts say $33bn in cuts would be a victory for Republicans, even though the party’s House caucus had earlier succeeded in passing a bill that trimmed $61bn from the budget by October while stripping funding from President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform effort and other Democratic priorities.

That bill failed in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and Mr Obama had vowed to veto it anyway.

A $33bn cut – the single largest budget cut in US history – would severely hamper many government programmes and Democrats have warned large cuts could endanger the fragile economic recovery.

But the cuts would do little to curb the current $1.4 trillion budget deficit, and Republicans remain steadfastly opposed to any tax increases.

The government has been operating without a long-term budget since the start of the fiscal year on 1 October, subsisting instead on a series of temporary measures, the most recent of which was passed two weeks ago and expires on 8 April.

That and a previous measure had already slashed $10bn from spending by 8 April, mostly on programmes Mr Obama had already identified for cuts.

Without an agreement in Congress, many government services will be shut down for lack of funding, an outcome both parties say they hope to avoid.

“There are hurdles to clear before we get from here to a deal but… progress is being made,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

Meanwhile, a group of Tea Partiers who rallied on Capitol Hill on Thursday demanded even steeper cuts and urged Republican Congressional leaders not to compromise with Democrats.

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‘Growth crisis’ remarks spark row

Oliver LetwinMr Letwin said the cabinet was determined to take action to “enduce faster growth”
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Labour say the government has conceded the extent of the UK’s current economic problems after a minister spoke of a “national crisis” in growth and jobs.

Oliver Letwin told MPs that “an immediate national crisis in the form of less growth and jobs than we needed” had led to a review before the Budget.

The remark “let the cat out of the bag” about the impact of cuts, Labour said.

But government sources said Mr Letwin had referred to the legacy of debt and failing competitiveness left by Labour.

They said the Cabinet Office minister’s comments to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee had been “taken out of context”.

Officials insisted Mr Letwin was speaking about the serious economic situation the government inherited when it came to office in May 2010 and the growth review which ministers launched last November – not the period immediately proceeding the Budget.

“We took the view, collectively in cabinet, that we faced an immediate national crisis in the form of less growth and jobs than we needed”

Oliver Letwin Cabinet Office minister

Labour have accused ministers of endangering growth by cutting spending too far and too fast while business groups have also expressed concern about long-term strategy after the economy contracted by 0.5% in the final three months of the year – figures which at the time ministers described as “disappointing”.

The government published its long-term plan to stimulate enterprise on the same day as last month’s Budget, when Chancellor George Osborne promised a series of measures to put “fuel in the tank” of the economy.

Mr Letwin, a Cabinet Office minister who has a key role in co-ordinating policy across government, was askd by Labour MP Joan Walley how ministers took big economic decisions on issues which affected sustainability such as environmental standards for new homes.

“The way the decision has been made on that was that it was decided by the cabinet, as a whole, to have a growth review leading up to the recent Budget,” he replied.

“Because we took the view, collectively in cabinet, that we faced an immediate national crisis in the form of less growth and jobs than we needed and we were determined collectively to try to increase that growth and those jobs.”

Mr Letwin said Chancellor George Osborne and Business Secretary Vince Cable had subsequently chaired meetings to explore ideas that would “induce faster growth in the early years than we otherwise might have” while continuing to meet the government’s longer-term goals.

The government announced the growth review in November and the subsequent meetings began in January, several months before the Budget.

In response, Labour said ministers had recognised there was a “jobs and growth crisis in Britain” but had refused to change course on their central policy.

“It is a crisis of George Osborne’s own making and the government still seems to be in denial,” said shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Angela Eagle.

“By hiking up VAT and cutting too far and too fast we’re now set for slower growth and higher unemployment in the years ahead.

“Recognising there’s a problem is a good start. But there’s no point having crisis talks if you then decide to carry on regardless with a reckless plan that is hurting but isn’t working.”

BBC political correspondent Carole Walker said Mr Letwin had “handed ammunition” to the opposition in the choice of language he had used.

However, she added that Cabinet Office sources insisted that the crisis he was referring to was the one left by Labour in terms of the recent recession and failing competitiveness.

The coalition has accused Labour of having no plan for dealing with the UK’s record peacetime deficit while failing to make clear they would have implemented far-reaching cuts themselves.

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Comets caused Saturn ring ripples

Saturn's ringsAlternating light and dark bands in Saturn’s C ring captured by the Cassini spacecraft in 2009
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Scientists say that strange ripples observed in the ring systems of Saturn and Jupiter were caused by comets.

The ripples, which the researchers say resemble the undulations of corrugated metal, were detected in both Saturn’s rings and in Jupiter’s lesser-known rings.

The ripples in Jupiter’s rings are believed to have been caused by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which struck the planet in 1994. Details are published in two separate papers in the journal Science.

The researchers analysed images of Jupiter’s rings taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1996 and 2000 and by the New Horizons probe in 2007. They also looked at images of Saturn’s rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft during 2009.

What they found were undulations that the researchers liken to a corrugated tin roof, which when lit from a low angle, appear as alternating dark and light bands.

This corrugation was found across Saturn’s entire C ring, stretching for thousands of kilometres. It appeared to be part of a similar pattern observed previously in the fainter D ring. At least two separate spirals were meanwhile detected in Jupiter’s rings.

They researchers believe they were been caused by debris, most likely from a comet, impacting rings, and tilting them.

“The material passes through the ring and basically causes the entire ring to be slightly tilted with respect to the planet’s equatorial plane, and then it shears out to form this spiral pattern,” said Dr Matthew Hedman of Cornell University in New York.

“There was the eureka moment when we realised we had a smoking gun”

Dr Mark Showalter SETI Institute

Over time, the corrugated spiral became more tightly wound, as the gravity of the planet pulled the rings back into alignment. However, completing the process could take decades, the researchers estimate.

The team was then able to rewind the process using mathematical models to give an estimated date of the impact event. For Saturn, they arrived at a point in 1983, but have not yet found a possible candidate comet.

With Jupiter, they detected at least two spirals and so possibly two impact events. When they wound back the process for one of the spirals, they reached a point in 1994, the same year of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact.

Dr Mark Showalter of California’s SETI Institute remembers the moment he and Dr Hedman realised the significance of the date.

“Matt and I were talking, saying now wait a second doesn’t that date sound a little bit familiar and honestly we had to run off to Wikipedia to ask ‘When did Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter?’ and there was the eureka moment when we realised we had a smoking gun,” he told the BBC.

The second spiral led them to an estimated impact event in 1990, which the scientists hypothesise may have been caused by debris from a previous close encounter with Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft also suggested further impacts may have occurred across Jupiter’s rings in September 2001 and December 2003, but additional detections will be needed to confirm these results.

The impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 on JupiterA scar left behind by Shoemaker-Levy 9’s impact with Jupiter

Dr Showalter said ripples like those studied in the new papers could provide clues to the frequency of such events in the outer Solar System.

“Rings are comet catchers,” he says. “We probably already realised that comets hit rings periodically but we never realised before that every comet puts its own signature into the rings when it comes by and that that history gets recorded into these spiral patterns.

“Decades later, you can actually look at the same ring, find these ripple patterns, and each of them then tells you something about what hit the ring and when it did so.”

Commenting on the work, Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, a comet researcher at Queen’s University Belfast, said: “The papers show exactly what you can do when you have these beautifully functioning spacecraft observing the outer planets close up.”

He said the gravitational forces of the giant planets were enough to tear apart fragile comets, creating fields of debris that could cause the effects seen in the ring systems.

Asteroids too could be torn apart too by what are called tidal forces, he said, but this was more likely to be seen in the case of Jupiter, close to the Asteroid Belt.

He said the work would give researchers the “ability to directly calculate how often objects do hit the giant planets, which we’ve been struggling to pin down.”

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US subsidies to Boeing ‘illegal’

Boeing 787The dispute between Boeing and rival Airbus has been going on for six years
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US aircraft manufacturer Boeing received at least $5.3bn (£3.3bn) in unfair aid from Washington, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has concluded.

The subsidies included money for research and development from the Nasa space agency, a panel of international trade judges has ruled.

Last year the WTO said that Boeing’s arch rival Airbus had received illegal aid from European governments.

The two companies have been at war over state aid for almost six years.

The case is one of the most complex ever brought before Geneva-based WTO, which has issued 2,000 pages of rulings.

Both companies claimed that the WTO’s latest ruling bolstered their case.

“It’s time for Boeing to stop denying or minimising the massive illegal subsidies it gets,” said Rainer Ohler, head of public affairs at Airbus.

But Boeing said that the WTO’s ruling on the size of its aid, $5.3bn, was dwarfed by the $20bn that Airbus had received.

“This WTO ruling shatters the convenient myth that European governments must illegally subsidise Airbus to counter US government assistance to Boeing,” said Michael Luttig, general counsel at Boeing.

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Shot girl ‘target’ comes forward

Forensic officers examine the scene in Brixton, south east London where a five year old girl was shot in the Stockwell Food and Wine shopBoth victims remain critically ill in hospital
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A youth thought to have been targeted by the gang who shot a five-year-old girl and shopkeeper in south London has contacted police.

Thursha Kamaleswaran and the man, 35, were hit in the chest and face respectively at the Stockwell Food and Wine shop, Stockwell Road, on Tuesday.

A £50,000 reward has been offered for information. It happened as three youths on bikes chased two others.

Now Det Ch Insp Tony Boughton said one of those targeted had contacted them.

The shopkeeper, aged 35, and Thursha are in a critical but stable condition.

Thursha is currently under sedation and her parents are keeping a bedside vigil, a family friend said.

Velluppillai Navaratnam, 49, from Croydon, south London, said: “It has been a very difficult time for family and friends.

“The parents of Thursha are at the hospital now. We are all praying for her to get well soon.”

“For an innocent five-year-old child and shopkeeper to receive such horrific injuries is utterly despicable”

Dave Cording Crimestoppers

Crimestoppers and the Association of Convenience Stores have now offered the reward about the “heinous” crime.

Dave Cording, director of operations at Crimestoppers, said: “For an innocent five-year-old child and shopkeeper to receive such horrific injuries is utterly despicable.

“A reward of up to £50,000 is being offered to anyone who can supply us with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible.

“This is a heinous crime. I hope the offenders will be swiftly brought to justice.”

Police revealed on Thursday that Thursha’s brother, 12, and sister, three, were also in the shop at the time of the shooting, but they were unhurt.

The victims were hit when one of three youths on bikes opened fire on two other youths who were hiding in the shop after being chased.

The two teenagers had been chased from Broomgrove Road, across Stockwell Road, and into the shop.

After the shots were fired, the three attackers were chased by their intended targets from the shop along Broomgrove Road and into the Stockwell Park Estate.

James Lowman, of the Association of Convenience Stores, said: “Our thoughts are with the victims and their families after this horrific incident.

“We want to help the police, through Crimestoppers, to catch those responsible and we hope that by funding this reward we will play a part in securing more information to support the police investigation.”

The reward was offered under a new scheme to discourage people from committing violence on shopkeepers.

Det Ch Insp Tony Boughton said: “I appeal to those who have information or were involved in this shooting to come forward and assist us with this investigation.

“This is a terrible incident where an innocent child has been seriously injured.

“We want to hear from the local community, who might have seen these youths cycling around the estate between 9pm and 10pm.

“These criminals have seriously injured two innocent bystanders and must face the consequences of their actions.”

The two youths who hid in the shop and the three who chased them and fired shots were all described as black.

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Pakistan Islamist chief targeted

Policemen survey the site of Wednesday's suicide bomb attack Maulana Rehman’s convoy and supporters were attacked by a bomber on Wednesday

At least 10 people have been killed in north-west Pakistan after a bomb hit the convoy of a hardline religious leader, police say.

At least two of those who died in the blast near Charsadda were police guarding Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who was unharmed. Thirty others were injured.

It is the second time in as many days that bombers have apparently targeted Maulana Rehman. Ten died on Wednesday.

It is not clear who carried out the attacks or why.

The BBC’s Riffatullah Orakzai in Peshawar says Maulana Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party is close to militant organisations.

Maulana Rehman himself said he did not know who might want to attack him.

“My car was substantially damaged in the attack. There is blood everywhere… my clothes are covered in blood,” he told reporters minutes after the attack.

“The bodies were blown out of the car… We are trying to get the dead and injured out of here and to hospitals.

“I can’t say who is behind these attacks but its definitely due to our political ideology.”

Some reports say that a suicide bomber tried to reach Maulana Rehman’s car but was stopped by a police vehicle escorting the politician.

Officials say the blast ripped through the police vehicle.

Charsadda police chief Nisar Khan Marwat told the BBC that at least two policemen inside were among the dead – the rest were locals, he said.

Maulana Rehman escaped unscathed, although two of his aides were injured.

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