TIMELINE - Pakistan suffers more bloody attacks

A policeman removes his motorcycle from the scene as angry protesters burn a vehicle during reaction over after bomb attack during a Shi'ite Muslim procession in Lahore September 1, 2010.

REUTERS - Three bombs exploded at a Shi'ite procession in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 170.

Following is a timeline of major attacks in 2010:

Jan. 1, 2010 - A suicide bomber blows himself up in an SUV at a volleyball game killing at least 98 people in the northwest village of Shah Hassankhel, near the town of Lakki Marwat, a town that opposes al Qaeda-linked Taliban insurgents.

Feb. 5 - A suspected suicide bomber on a motorcycle kills 12 Shi'ites in Karachi, followed hours later by a blast at a hospital where the wounded were being treated which kills another 13 people. About 100 are wounded.

March 10 - Suspected Islamist militants storm the World Vision office -- a U.S.-based, Christian aid agency -- in Oghi village in Mansehra district, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Islamabad, killing six Pakistani aid workers after singling them out and then blowing up the building.

March 12 - Two suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military kill at least 45 people in Lahore. Those killed include nine soldiers. Almost 100 people were wounded.

April 5 - A suspected suicide bomber blows himself up at a meeting of an ethnic Pashtun nationalist political party, killing 38 people in Timergarah, the main town in the Lower Dir district.

May 28 - Taliban militants kill at least 84 people in attacks on worshippers from a minority religious group known as Ahmadis in two mosques of the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

July 1 - Two suicide bombers strike a Sufi shrine in Lahore killing at least 42 and wounding 175. Devotees were visiting the shrine of the Persian Sufi saint, Syed Ali Hajwairi, known as Data Gunj Bakhsh, in the heart of the city.

July 9 - A suicide bomber blows himself up as hundreds of people gathered around the office of a senior government official in the northwestern Mohmand region. At least 102 people have been killed and around 80 wounded.

Sept 1 - At least 20 people are killed in three bomb attacks during a Shi'ite procession in Lahore. More than 170 people are wounded.

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)

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