From CNN:

Thursday, December 25, 2003 Posted: 1604 GMT (12:04 AM HKT)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Would-be assassins launched a two-pronged suicide attack against a convoy carrying Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Thursday, the second attempt to kill him in the last 12 days.

Musharraf escaped unharmed, the Pakistani Information Ministry said.

The president was traveling from Islamabad, to his home in Rawalpindi, just outside the capital, when two vans tried to enter the convoy -- one at the front of the convoy, one at the rear. Both vans exploded, police said.

At least 15 people died in the attack and at least 46 were wounded. Musharraf's car was damaged when the windshield was shattered, Pakistani officials said. In addition, two vehicles at the end of the president's motorcade were badly damaged.

Police said Musharraf safely escaped the attack and fled to his home.

The Pakistani Cabinet met Thursday evening to discuss whether to declare a state of emergency, government officials told CNN.

Musharraf narrowly escaped an attack December 14, when a blast rocked a bridge in Rawalpindi about a minute after his motorcade had passed over it. (Full story)

Shortly after the attack, Musharraf blamed the blast on Islamic militants whom he had incensed when he sided with the United States in its war against the al Qaeda terrorist network and its Taliban allies in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001.

He banned several militant, religious and separatist groups in Pakistan and the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir and has arrested hundreds of members.

Last month, he outlawed six previously banned militant groups after complaints from the U.S. they had reformed under new names.

Three Islamic militants were convicted for a previous attempt on Musharraf's life last year -- one of at least two assassination bids since he took power in a bloodless coup in 1999.

The attempt in April 2002 was a similar attack in the port city of Karachi, which failed when a vehicle laden with explosives failed to detonate.

-- CNN Producer Sayed Noqvi contributed to this report