Blast kills six in Pakistan (Lead, changing dateline)
February 3rd, 2010 - 3:55 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 3 (DPA) A roadside bomb tore through a military convoy in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region Wednesday, killing at least six people, including three foreigners, police said.
More than 30 people were wounded in the blast outside a school for girls in the Koto area of the Lower Dir district.
“So far we have six people dead, three of them foreigners,” district police chief Mumtaz Zareen said.
The identities of the foreigners were not immediately known, but they were believed to be associated with some aid agencies.
Troops were taking aid workers and journalists to the inaugural ceremony of a rebuilt government school in Maidan town when suspected Islamist militants detonated a remote-controlled bomb in the road.
The blast destroyed one vehicle and damaged several buildings in the area, the military said.
Pakistani security forces carried out a major offensive in Lower Dir and other nearby districts last spring to dislodge the Taliban fighters.
The insurgents have carried out dozens of attacks on military and civilian targets since then.
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