Suicide bomber kills four in NWFP
March 12th, 2010 - 12:36 pm ICT by ANI
Peshawar, Mar.12 (ANI): Extremists struck again in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) killing four persons and injuring over 20 others in the Khyber Agency.
According to police officials, a suicide bomber, who was supposed to target a paramilitary convoy, blew himself up near a checkpost in Old Bara area killing four persons on the spot.
“Four civilians were killed in the attack and at least 20 injured,” senior police official Tauseef Haider told media persons.
However, a foreign news agency put the death toll to five.
Eyewitnesses said they saw a suicide bomber, who had apparently been sitting in a roadside cafe, running towards the checkpost, and exploding a little distance from it.
No group has claimed the responsibility for the blast but security officials suspect the hand of the Taliban in the suicide attack, The Daily Times reports.
More than 700 civilians were killed in attacks in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) in 2009, most of them in Peshawar, eroding confidence in the country’s security forces.Hundreds of police and army troops have died in the last year in the fight against the Pakistani Taliban. (ANI)
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