Weapons IED Start date July 13, 2009 Total number of deaths 12 Location Mian Channu | Non-fatal injuries 60 Location Mian Channu, Pakistan Attack type Mass murder | |
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Similar Taunsa Sharif bombing, April 2010 Kohat bombings, 2015 Quetta bus bombing, 2012 Khyber Agency b, February 2010 Karachi b | ||
The Mian Channu school house bombing occurred on 13 July 2009 when at least 12 people including 8 children died, in the city of Mian Channu, Pakistan after an explosion in a school.
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Explosion
The blast happened in a school house used to teach Qur'an to the children. The blast took place soon after a class was completed at about 9 am and the students were leaving the house. Forty other houses were destroyed and 60 people were injured. The house was owned by Riaz Ahmad Kamboh, a religious teacher. The blast left a crater 40 feet wide and 8 feet deep. After the blast a steel box containing audio tapes of sermons by clerics belonging to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was recovered from the house. It appeared that the house was also being used as an ammunition dump. According to the police small rockets and missiles propelled by shoulder-fired launchers were among the other material recovered from the site. It was theorized that the blast was accidental.
Aftermath
Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani condemned the blast and ordered an enquiry into the explosion. Subsequently the police filed an FIR against three including Riaz in connection with this explosion. It was reported that Riaz Kamboh was recruiting fighters for Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and was an expert at making suicide vests.