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Three policemen injured in Swat roadside blast
Three policemen and a civilian were injured in a roadside bomb blast in Swat on Monday. The policemen were returning to the Kanjoo police post after defusing a bomb in Ningolai when the van they were riding on hit a roadside bomb in Dherai, police and residents said. The policemen Bakht Bedar, Ashraf, and Mukhtiar along with a civilian, Raheem, were injured. Police said they had arrested a militant commander after the blast.Meanwhile, an official source said two would-be suicide bombers Azeem Khan, 31, and Akbar Ali, who is about 16-years-old had entered Mingora. Separately, militants detonated a remote-controlled bomb near a Saidu Sharif police post late on Sunday, damaging the building partially. Militants also blew up a mobile phone shop in Lakki Marwat with explosives, Online reported. Police in Malakand said unidentified people had slaughtered Zuhra Bibi, her daughter Irfania (14), and sons Hassan Shah and Muqadar Shah in Batkhela tehsil. Posted by: Fred 2008-04-01 |
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