2009 Usterzai bombing

Suicide car bombing in Pakistan March 2023 March 2023 On 18 September 2009, a suicide car bombing killed at least 39 people in Usterzai, Pakistan.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8262199.stm Carnage in Pakistan market attack BBC News 18 September 2009 3 March 2023 39 killed in Pakistan market car bombing - CNN.com https://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/18/pakistan.car.bomb/index.html 2022-03-17 CNN At 11am on 18 September 2009, a suicide car bombing took place at Kacha Pakha bazaar village market at a busy intersection, badly damaging Hikmat Ali hotel, as well as a restaurant and shops, causing some to collapse. It happened in a Shia Muslim area of Usterzai, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, five and a half years after the war in northwest Pakistan began. The attack killed at least 39 people and injured another 54, most of whom are believed to have been members of Pakistan's Shia minority, who are often targeted by Sunni extremist militants. A group calling itself Lahskar-e-Jhangvi al-Almi claimed carrying out the attack, for what it called revenge for the killing of a cleric, Maulana M Amin, in Hangu, NWFP, three months earlier. They were believed to be linked to Taliban-linked Sunni supremacist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. References Pakistan Category:2009 murders in Pakistan Category:2009 building bombings Category:2000s crimes in North-West Frontier Province Category:21st-century mass murders in Pakistan Category:Car and truck bombings in 2009 Category:Hotel bombings in Pakistan Category:Restaurant bombings in Asia Category:Attacks on shops in Pakistan Category:Building bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Category:Islamic terrorism in Pakistan Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 2009 Category:Kohat District Category:Lashkar-e-Jhangvi attacks Category:September 2009 crimes in Asia Category:September 2009 in Pakistan Category:Suicide bombings in 2009 Category:Suicide bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Category:Suicide car and truck bombings in Pakistan Category:Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2009 Category:Violence against Shia Muslims in Pakistan