国际英语新闻：Death toll in suicide bombing in NW Pakistan rises to 75

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on Friday at a volleyball ground in northwest Pakistan rose to 75, while some 60 others were injured, local media quoted police as saying on Saturday.

    The bomber on Friday rammed his explosive-packed car into the wall of the volleyball ground in Lakki Marwat district in North West Frontier Province, District Police Officer Ayub Khan said.

    Khan confirmed that 75 people had died in the deadly suicide attack and 62 others were injured.

    The police officer said two local teams were playing a volleyball match when the suicide bomber struck and targeted the 100-strong spectators.

Rescue workers carry an injured man who was injured in a bomb blast to hospital for treatment in the town of Lakki Marwat January 1, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up in an SUV at a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 75 people in a village that opposes al Qaeda-linked Taliban insurgents, police said.

Police sources said that about 300 kg of explosives were used in the blast.

    So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. But the police officer suspected that Taliban militants may be behind the attack as people of the area cooperated with government security forces in recent operations.

    Khan said people and members of the peace committee of Shah Hasan Khel village, site of the bomb attack, had expelled militants from the area with the help of the security forces.

    The village, some 25 kilometers from Lakki city, was earlier considered to be a stronghold of the militants.

    The police officer said that a house near the playground was also demolished, leaving several women and children buried underneath.

    Locals used private vehicles to rush the injured to the main hospital in Lakki city, and some were taken to Bannu, another main city in the region, for treatment.