SLAMABAD, Pakistan — A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said.
The blast echoed through Islamabad and left a crater over a meter (three feet) deep in the road in front of the embassy. Shattered glass, fallen masonry and dozens of wrecked vehicles littered the area. People, some bloodied, ran back and forth in a state of panic.
An exterior wall of the embassy collapsed and its metal gate was blown inward but the embassy building itself remained intact.
A Pakistani intelligence officer tells FOX News one Danish embassy official and four Pakistani security officers were killed in the blast. Witnesses said many more sustained minor injuries from flying debris. It was the second bombing targeting foreigners in the Pakistani capital in less than three months.
There was no immediate information on any foreign casualties.
Denmark has faced threats at its embassies following the reprinting in Danish newspapers of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims generally consider depicting the prophet to be sacrilegious. Islamic militants have warned of reprisals.
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The blast echoed through Islamabad and left a crater over a meter (three feet) deep in the road in front of the embassy. Shattered glass, fallen masonry and dozens of wrecked vehicles littered the area. People, some bloodied, ran back and forth in a state of panic.
An exterior wall of the embassy collapsed and its metal gate was blown inward but the embassy building itself remained intact.
A Pakistani intelligence officer tells FOX News one Danish embassy official and four Pakistani security officers were killed in the blast. Witnesses said many more sustained minor injuries from flying debris. It was the second bombing targeting foreigners in the Pakistani capital in less than three months.
There was no immediate information on any foreign casualties.
Denmark has faced threats at its embassies following the reprinting in Danish newspapers of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims generally consider depicting the prophet to be sacrilegious. Islamic militants have warned of reprisals.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361348,00.html