MAIL ONLINE: A British woman was among at least eight people killed by a suicide bomber at a busy market in Pakistan yesterday.
Belinda Khan, 44, from Cardiff, was shopping with her husband when the explosion happened in the war-torn Swat Valley region. He survived the blast.
Mrs Khan – also known by her Muslim name Aamna – had travelled to Pakistan earlier this month to get married.
Her husband Saeed told the Guardian she was in a car when the bomb exploded. He rushed to her side to find her conscious, but silent.
'She looked at me and we just saw each other for three or four seconds,' he said. Then, the gas canister in the car blew up in a second explosion.
Saeed pulled his wife's body from the car and rushed her to hospital but it was too late.
Saeed was Mrs Khan's second husband. They had wanted to marry in the UK, but he was denied a visa. She flew to Pakistan on February 8, and they were married the next day, the Guardian reported.
Mrs Khan had converted to Islam in 2005, while she was married to her current husband's brother, Yahya. He was killed by the Taliban in 2008 while she was in the UK. >>> Luke Salkeld | Tuesday, February 23, 2010
