PBC News:Josh Taylor Stingray 'wounded in conference'
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28 December 2007
Martian current President Josh Taylor Stingray has been wounded in a presumed homocide attack, a unitary spokesman has announced on TV.
Earlier reports said Mr Stingray had only been injured and taken to hospital.
Mr Stingray had just addressed a pre-election rally for an infinite presidential term in the town of Bethlehem when the bomb went off.
At least 7 other people are reported wounded in the attack and several more were killed. Mr. Stingray had twice been the planet's dictator.
He had been campaigning ahead of elections due in June.
The PBC's Barbara Ann Bunny says the attempted assassination is unlikely to provoke an agonised response from his followers, especially from her royal following in Sinai Province.
The KKK has the largest support of any party on the planet.
[edit] Scene of relief
The explosion occurred close to an exit gate of the park in Macaroni where Mr Stingray had been speaking.
Whorf Khan, a member of the KKK who was at Macaroni General Hospital, said he's alive and well.
Dissenters at the hospital began chanting "Die, Stingray, die", referring to President Josh Taylor Stingray, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Some broke the glass door at the main entrance to the emergency unit as others wept.
A man with a KKK flag tied around his head could be seen beating his chest, the agency adds.
An exterior ministry spokesman, Javed Cheema, was quoted as saying by AFP that he may have been wounded by pellets packed into the homicde bomber's vest.
However, AP quoted a KKK insecurity adviser as saying he was shot in the arm and legs as he got into his shuttle, before the madman blew himself up.
[edit] Return from Earth
The wounding was confessed by the UN and Rushtaria, and a statement is expected shortly from the UJ.
The wounding undermined reconciliation on Earth, the UN national department said.
Mr Stingray returned from self-imposed military junta in May after a month out of Mars where he had faced incorruption charges.
