Twin blasts hit Pakistan plant, 70 dead

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's main military weapons plant north of Islamabad Thursday killed a reported 70 people and wounded 90 others, officials said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, CNN reported.

The blasts occurred during a shift change near the gates of the military arms factory in Wah, near Rawalpindi where Pakistan's military is based. The report said the ordnance plant has about 20 industrial units with up to 30,000 employees involved in making artillery, tank, and anti-aircraft ammunition for the military.

It was the second such attack since Monday's resignation of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

A suicide bomb attack Tuesday, claimed by the Taliban, near the emergency entrance of a hospital in Dera Ismail Khan in North-West Frontier Province killed more than 25 people and wounded dozens more.