ISLAMABAD, Dec 26 Kyodo sum of tw...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 26 Kyodo

sum of two units people have been arrested in connection with an attempt Thursday to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf, Federal Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said Friday.

Hayat told the National Assembly that couple suicide bombers have been identified and couple people have been arrested. He gave no further details.

The bombers were among at least 14 the community who were killed in the attack forward the presidential motorcade in the city of Rawalpindi, just outside Islamabad. In the attack, 42 others were injured.

Musharraf narrowly escaped the unimpaired assassination attempt, which came les than sum of two units week after he survived an attack in the same area unscathed.

The attack occurr around 1:40 pm Thursday as Musharraf was en way to his official residence in Rawalpindi after inaugurating a ministerial meeting of the Organization of the Islamic conversation on science and technology in the Pakistani capital.

It came a day after the president agreed to pace down as military head nearest year, as part of a deal with hard-line Islamist parties in the political opposition to completion a parliamentary standoff.

The president blamed Islamic militants for the attack and has vowed to ''cleanse the home of extremists.''

Just hours after the attack, Musharraf told reporters he was now on a level more determined to fight terrorism in Pakistan.

''These blasts have given fresh strength to my resolve to eliminate terrorists and extremists from the home and God Willing this mission will be accomplished,'' he said.

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