Two bomb blasts kill dozens in Pakistan

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- At least 29 people died and scores of other injured in two bombing attacks early Tuesday, one targeting an army bus, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Police said one explosion in the garrison city near Islamabad occurred in an army bus believed to be taking Pakistan Atomic Energy commission employees to work, killing at least 17 people, the Press Truss of India reported.

The second bomb was attached on a motorbike that exploded at a crowded bazaar, killing at least a dozen people.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks.

"It is terrorism because innocent people were killed in both blasts," army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad said.

Violence has risen sharply in Pakistan since its military took control of a mosque in Islamabad in July after it had been occupied for months by radical Islamic students.