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| Three policemen injured in Swat roadside blast |
| 2008-04-01 |
| 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 |