A bhurka-clad suicide bomber hurled grenades into a crowd that was gathered to receive rations from the UN's World Food Program before blowing herself up in northern Pakistan on Sunday. The Taliban took credit for the attack, which killed 46 people, injured 76 more and was thought to be the first suicide bombing carried out by a female in Pakistan.
The blast had taken place in the northern town of Khar in the Bajaur reigon along the Afghan border. Many of the people awaiting rations from the WFP had been displaced earlier by fighting between the Taliban and Pakistan's military or flooding earlier this year.
The BBC reported that Pakistan's Army had begun attacking Taliban and militant positions in the neighboring Mohmand region. This would not be the first time the UN's WFP was targeted in Pakistan- last October, a suicide bomber killed six employees when he attacked the WFP offices in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
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