ISLAMABAD, Sep. 6, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Pakistan has witnessed some deadliest incidences of suicide attacks so far in 2010. The suicide bombing targeting massive people has been on the rise since the beginning of September.
Major incidences of suicide violence starting from the bloodiest attack on the very first day of the year are given in chronological order below.
-- Sept. 6: A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed vehicle into a police station in Lakki Marwat, a main city in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing 19 people and injuring over 40, mostly policemen.
-- Sept. 3: At least 73 people were killed and over 160 others injured when a suicide bomb blast targeted a large Shia Muslim rally in southwest city Quetta. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and a banned Sunni radical group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility.
-- Sept. 1: Three back-to-back attacks, at least two confirmed suicide bombings, hit a massive Shia Muslim procession in eastern city Lahore, killing at least 37 and wounding over 300. TTP and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility.
-- Aug. 23: At least 30 persons, including a former member of the National Assembly (NA), were killed and 40 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in Wana town of South Waziristan in the northwest tribal belt.
-- July 9: At least 102 persons were killed, including women and children, and 120 injured, as two suicide bombers blew them off through political offices in Yakka Ghund Tehsil of Mohmand tribal agency in the northwest. TTP Mohmand chapter claimed responsibility.
-- July 1: At least 45 people were killed and 175 others injured when three suicide attackers blew themselves up inside the shrine of Lahore's patron saint Syed Ali Hajwairi popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh.
-- May 28: More than 95 worshippers were killed and 108 others were injured as gunmen armed with hand grenades and suicide jackets stormed into two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore during Friday prayers. Militant groups identified themselves as Al-Qaeda Al- Jihad and TTP-Punjab. One attacker was killed, another suicide bomber was captured by worshippers.
-- April 19: At least 23 people were killed and more than 40 others were wounded after two bomb attacks hit the northwest city of Peshawar. The first attack occurred when a bomb exploded outside a school run by a police welfare foundation, killing one person and injuring another 10. The second attack involved a suicide bomber who had targeted a political rally near crowded market area.
-- April 17: At least 41 people were killed and more than 50 others injured after two suicide bombers attacked an Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) camp in northwest Kohat city.
-- April 16: At least 10 people were killed and another 35 were injured after a suicide bomb attack took place at a hospital, in Quetta. A TV cameraman, as well as two police officers were among the dead in the attack.
-- April 5: At least 49 people were killed and more than 50 others were wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a political party rally in the Lower Dir district, bordering tribal areas in Pakistan. Minutes after the blast unknown militants attacked the U. S. consulate in Peshawar. It has been reported that at least seven people were killed in the attack in Peshawar.
-- March 13: A suicide blast near the city of Mingora, northwest Swat Valley, left 10 people killed and 37 others injured.
-- March 12: Two suicide bomb attacks in Lahore resulted in the deaths of at least 45 people and wounded 100 others. Both of these bomb attacks reportedly targeted military vehicles as they were passing through a crowded area.
-- March 8: A suicide bomb attack killed at least 13 people in Lahore, provincial capital of Punjab, and wounded more than 60 others. The bomber reportedly rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a building that housed an anti-terrorist wing of the federal investigative agency.
-- March 5: 12 people were killed and another 25 were injured in the Hangu district of northwest Pakistan when a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of vehicles traveling from the Hangu district to the Kurram region.
-- Feb. 18: A bomb attack in crowded a market resulted in the deaths of at least 15 people and wounded more than 100 others in Tirah valley of the Khyber tribal region.
-- Jan. 30: A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and wounded 20 others, when he attacked a checkpoint in the northwestern town of Khar, headquarters of Bajaur tribal region.
-- Jan. 1: At least 105 people were killed and dozens of others injured when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle in a crowd watching a volleyball game in the district of Lakki Marwat in the northwestern part of Pakistan.
