CHRONOLOGY-Bomb attacks in Pakistan after mosque siege
Source: Reuters
July 19 (Reuters) - Three suicide attacks killed at least 52 people in Pakistan on Thursday, the worst day in a wave of attacks that have rocked the country since a government siege on an Islamabad mosque earlier this month. Here is a chronology charting the surge in violence that has killed more than 150 people since the siege of the Lal Masjid mosque began on July 3: * July 4: A suicide bomber kills six soldiers and two children in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and a roadside bomb aimed at police kills four civilians in another part of the province. * July 6: A suicide bomber throws himself at an army jeep, killing six soldiers in NWFP. * July 8: Unidentified gunmen kill three Chinese workers and wound another in Peshawar in NWFP. - A policeman is killed in a blast in NWFP. * July 12: Two suicide bomb attacks kill seven people, including three policemen, in the semi-autonomous North Waziristan tribal region and NWFP. * July 14: A suicide car-bomber kills 24 paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan; two security officials are wounded in another blast in NWFP. * July 15: Sixteen people, most of them paramilitary soldiers, are killed in a suicide-bomb ambush on a patrol in Swat valley in NWFP. - A suicide bomber targets a police recruiting centre in Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, killing 29. * July 17: A suicide bomber kills 16 people outside a court in Islamabad where the country's suspended chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, was due to speak. - A suicide bomber kills four, including three soldiers, in North Waziristan. * July 18: Seventeen soldiers are killed when militants attack a security force convoy in North Waziristan. - Five militants are killed when they ambush another military convoy in North Waziristan. * July 19: Three suicide attacks kill at least 52 people. One attack in the southern town of Hub kills at least 30 people, including seven police officers escorting a team of Chinese engineers. The Chinese workers escaped unhurt. In the northwest city of Hangu a car bomber attacked a police training centre killing seven people. The third attack killed at least 15 worshippers at a mosque in an army training centre in the military cantonment area of Kohat in the northwest. Source: Reuters
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