Two suspected suicide bombers were killed on Sunday when their bomb exploded prematurely near the residence of a former minister, police said. The attackers were travelling by motorbike to target the residence of Ijaz ul Haq in Haroonabad, said local police chief Zafar Abbas Bokhari.
Ijaz ul Haq, a senior leader of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q, was not at home when the explosion occurred. It was the first suicide attack in Pakistan since opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died in a gun-suicide bombing attack on Thursday that also killed 22 other people.
Haq served as the minister for Religious Affairs and quit in November when the upper house of the parliament was dissolved ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for January 8. Two weeks ago, former Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao, who had oversaw the Red Mosque operation, survived a suicide bombing at a mosque packed with Muslim worshippers, missing him but killing but more than 50 people.
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