Bomb attacks in Pakistan kill at least 80 people

A pair of suicide bombers today attacked recruits leaving a paramilitary training centre in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 80 people and wounding dozens more.

The bombers blew themselves up at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary as recruits prepared to leave for home after a training exercise.

The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it punishment against Pakistani authorities for failing to stop the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden and warned that it will carry out more attacks in the weeks to come.

Pakistan's National Commission for Justice and Peace, Peter Jacob, says that it is a symbolic attack against the Pakistani administration, but the civilian deaths aren’t important to the Taliban. “They don’t consider them to be worthy of living since they are not good Muslims,” he told Vatican Radio.

Listen to John Kelly’s full interview with Peter Jacob here: