Suicide bombing kills 2 people in Pakistan’s Swat Valley

(1 May 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide tracking shot of bazaar, showing people escaping from blast site
2. A man carrying a wounded bloody victim on his shoulder
3. An injured man lying on ground as two men try to pick him up, police and soldiers in background
4. People carrying an injured man towards a van
5. Injured man being placed in army vehicle
6. Mid shot of people carrying injured from rubble, covered in dust and blood
7. Various of people pulling injured from rubble
8. Wide back of man injured in blast
9. Soldiers coming down from shopping plaza, where blast took place
10. Ambulance driving off to hospital
STORYLINE
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy market area in Mingora, in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, on Saturday, killing two civilians, local police said.
Senior police official Qazi Ghulam Farooq said six others were wounded when the attacker detonated the bomb, after police surrounded him in the city of Mingora.
The attack happened shortly after security forces had arrested one militant and killed another following a tip-off that three suicide bombers had entered the area, he said.
Farooq initially said a bomb had exploded but later told reporters that a suicide bomber had been surrounded by police, and he detonated his device when asked to surrender.
The blast damaged several shops, where the casualties occurred, he said, as well as some vehicles.
The violence raised fears that the Taliban were returning in a region where the Pakistan army waged a major offensive last year, part of a broader military campaign against militants across the volatile northwest.
Once a favourite tourist destination in Pakistan, the picturesque Swat Valley began falling under the Taliban’s sway in 2007.
The Pakistan military launched a major offensive there and took back the region in mid-2009.
Periodic militant attacks have persisted since then.

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