Incident Summary:

10/07/2004: In the early morning hours, a car bomb exploded in the main square of the city of Multan, disrupting a gathering of 2000 Sunnis commemorating the one year-anniversary of the death of an extremist Sunni leader of the outlawed group Sipah-e-Sahaba. Forty-one were killed and over 100 were wounded.

Overview

GTD ID:
200410070001

When:
2004-10-07

Country:
Pakistan

Region:
South Asia

Province/administrative
region/u.s. state:
Punjab

City:
Multan

What

Attack Information
Type of Attack (more)	Bombing/Explosion
Successful Attack? (more)	Yes

Target Information (more)
Target Type: Private Citizens & Property
Name of Entity	Town Square in Pakistan
Specific Description	Rasheedabad Square in Multan
Nationality of Target	Pakistan

Additional Information
Hostages	No
Property Damage	Yes
Extent of Property Damage	Unknown
Value of Property Damage	Unknown

How

Weapon Information
Type	Sub-type
Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite	Vehicle
Weapon Details
The car used in the bombing was filled with 7 to 8 kilograms of explosives.

Additional Information
Suicide Attack?	No
Part of Multiple Incident?	No
Criterion 1 (more)	Yes
Criterion 2 (more)	Yes
Criterion 3 (more)	Yes
Doubt Terrorism Proper (more)	No
Additional Information	The people gathering were commemorating the one year anniversary of the death of the leader of the outlawed group Sipah-e-Sahaba, Amjad Farooqi, which renamed itself Millat-e-Islamia in 2002. The group was also called Lashkar Jhangvi, and was known to have ties with Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban. Farooqi was wanted on charges for the murder of Daniel Pearl and for assassination attempts on the life of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

Who

Perpetrator Group Information
Group Name	Claimed Responsibility
Sipah-I-Mohammed	No

Perpetrator Statistics
Number of Perpetrators	Unknown
Number of Captured Perpetrators	0

Casualty Information
Total Number of Casualties	41 Fatalities / 100 Injured
Total Number of Fatalities	41
Number of U.S. Fatalities	0
Number of Perpetrator Fatalities	0
Total Number of Injured	100
Number of U.S. Injured	0
Number of Perpetrators Injured	0

Sources

Sources
“Car bomb kills 41 at Pakistani prayer vigil,” Agence France Presse, October 7, 2004.
“38 confirmed killed, more than 100 injured in Pakistan blasts,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur, October 7, 2004.
Tanveer, Khalid, “Two blasts kill 39 people in suspected sectarian attack in central Pakistan city,” The Associated Press, October 7, 2004.