40 killed in Pakistan suicide blasts
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Pakistani security personnel remove a body from the site of a suicide attack in front of the exit gates of the Pakistan ordnance factory. (AFP: Farooq Naeem)
Two suicide bombers have killed at least 40 people and wounded 100 others outside a military arms factory in Pakistan.
Pakistani police say two suicide bombers struck outside the country's largest military arms factory near Islamabad during a shift change.
The local police chief Nasir Durrani described it as a massive attack.
The bombers were on foot and they exploded themselves less than a minute apart.
Factory worker Riaz Hussain says most of the victims were workers joining the afternoon shift at the factory in the northern town of Taxila.
The attack comes two days after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a hospital killing 30 people.
Taliban militants have warned they would launch attacks on the military in response to a Pakistan Army operation in a tribal region on the Afghan border.
