Islamabad: A suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a Pakistan army training base in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 35 soldiers and wounding a number of others, army and government officials said.
A security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the suicide attacker had struck the army's main training center in the high-security area of Dargai, a town about 100 kilometers north of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
A government official and an army general, both speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the death toll and said the attack was a suicide bombing.
The army is expected to issue a statement about the attack later today
"It was a training area. This was a suicide attack. A suicide bomber came to the recruits and blew himself up," military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan was quoted by news agency Reuters as saying.
"Many recruits have been martyred," he said. Some soldiers were wounded in the attack in the town of Dargai, in North West Frontier Province, he said.
Dargai is said to be a stronghold of a pro-Taliban militant group.
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