October 23, a suicide bomber at the aeronautical manufacturing complex killed seven people in Kamra city, north-east of Pakistan.

“The bomber blew up himself up at the checkpoint at the entrance to the complex, 40 miles northwest of Islamabad, as workers arrived for the morning shift, said a district police official, Fakhur Sultan,” the New York Times reads. It is the ninth attack this month.

According to the daily, two men guarding the checkpoint and five civilians were killed.

“The relentless pace of assaults against sensitive and prominent targets in Pakistan comes as the army is conducting a major offensive against Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in the remote tribal area of South Waziristan. The attacks are seen as reprisals by the militants for the campaign against them in their tribal heartland,” the daily says.