5 April 2010 North-West Frontier Province attacks

5 April 2010 Peshawar bombings
LocationPeshawar, Pakistan
DateApril 5, 2010
TargetU.S. Consulate in Peshawar[1] and ANP rally
Attack type
Suicide attack
Deaths50
Injured100
PerpetratorsTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan[2]

On April 5, 2010, two bombings in Pakistan killed up to 50 people and injured 100 more. In the first attack the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar was attacked by militants.[3] The coordinated attack involved a vehicle suicide bomb and attackers who tried to enter the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar by using grenades and weapons fire. Three explosions went off within a span of 15 minutes in the area of Saddar and Hayatabad Avenue, near the American consulate and the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan's intelligence agency.[4] Several militants came in two vehicles. The first vehicle exploded near a security checkpoint, and gunmen in the second car opened fire.[5] A Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan spokesman claimed responsibility for the assault on the consulate. In Timergara, Lower Dir district an Awami National Party rally came under attack.[6] Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq[7] said "Americans are our enemies. We carried out the attack on their consulate in Peshawar. We plan more such attacks."[8]

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  3. ^ Khan, Ismail; Tavernise, Sabrina (2010-04-05). "U.S. Consulate in Pakistan Is Attacked by Militants". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
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  5. ^ AFP (5 April 2010). "Taliban claim attack on US consulate in Pak's Peshawar". Times of India. Miranshah.
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  8. ^ "Taliban claims Peshawar attack". english.aljazeera.net. Al Jazeera. 5 April 2010. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010.