Police say blast kills 4 in Pakistan

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Police say blast kills 4 in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say an explosion near a small police building in Pakistan's northwest has killed four people and wounded at least 30.

The blast occurred Thursday morning in the Hangu area, which is right outside the tribal regions where al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters have long proliferated.

Police official Rasheed Khan says the victims were rushed to hospitals.

Security and government offices are routinely attacked by militants in Pakistan's northwest.
Police say blast kills 4 in Pakistan - USATODAY.com

 

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At least 3 Policemen have been died and 15 have been injured in an explosion on a police check in Hangu , North West Pakistan.

 

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15 people killed in attacks in Pakistan

By the CNN Wire Staff
March 3, 2011 -- Updated 0846 GMT (1646 HKT)

(CNN) -- A vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing nine people, police said.
Thirty-one others were hurt in the attack outside Hangu district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said police official Aslam Khan.
The province was formerly known as the North West Frontier Province.
Meanwhile, six tribal policemen were killed and three others injured Thursday when unknown gunmen opened fire on a patrol in Khyber Agency in Pakistan's tribal region, a senior government official said.
The police van was on a routine patrol when more than five gunmen opened fire, said Shafeerullah Khan, the administration chief of Khyber Agency.

 

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A suicide bomber has set off explosives in a vehicle at a security checkpoint in the north-western Pakistani town of Hangu, killing at least nine people, officials said. Pakistan has seen a wave of suicide attacks in the past three years, many in north-western regions along the Afghan border where the Pakistan military is battling Taliban insurgents.

"Four policemen are among the dead … it also killed five people in cars driving past," police official Gul Jamal told Reuters.

Seven women and four children were among 30 wounded.

The bomber used about 600kg (1,300lb) of explosives. The blast destroyed three vehicles and severely damaged seven houses, a bomb disposal official said.

The army has launched a series of offensives over the past few years in Pakistan's north-west, which it says have weakened the Taliban.

But the militants still strike back with bombs.

The military action is seen as crucial to efforts to bring stability to neighbouring Afghanistan, where US forces are leading the fight against the Afghan Taliban, who take refuge with Islamist comrades on the Pakistani side of the border.