Pakistani Police Interrogate 6 Over Lahore Blast

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From 'Reuters':

Pakistani investigators interrogated six people on Wednesday in connection with a suicide bomb attack on a navy college, the latest violence to hit the country, where a new government is preparing to take power. More than 80 people have been killed in four suicide attacks in as many days in nuclear-armed Pakistan, on the front line of the U.S.-led campaign against al Qaeda and the Taliban. Two suicide bombers attacked a navy college in the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding 14, the military said. Initially, officials said there was one bomber. A navy spokesman said the attackers drove to the rear gate of the college on a motorbike, and police said six people were being questioned as investigators focused on the bike. "We have not detained or arrested anyone but are interrogating these people to find the owner of the motorbike," said Chaudhry Masood Aziz, a police superintendent. Navy spokesman Captain Akram Naqi said the severed heads and limbs of the attackers had been recovered.

Pakistan has been battling Islamist militancy since joining the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Militants linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban have stepped up attacks since an army assault on a radical mosque complex in the capital, Islamabad, in July. More than 500 people have been killed in attacks this year.

The latest bombings came as winners of February 18 elections, led by the party of Benazir Bhutto, herself killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack on December 27, hold talks on a coalition government. Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's widower and political successor, condemned the Lahore blast as "inhuman, barbaric and most despicable". Zardari's Pakistan People's Party said he found it "intriguing" there was a spurt in violence just as a democratically elected government was about to take power. "He asked the people to strengthen the democratic forces to foil the designs of conspirators and extremists," the party said in a statement.