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| Pakistan: Death toll rises from suicide bomb attack |
| 2008-08-30 |
| (AKI) - Five people were killed and another 37 were injured on Friday in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan. The attack occurred at a checkpost in Darra Adam Khel between Peshawar and Kohat. The Pakistani network, GeoTV, said suicide attackers arrived in three explosives-laden vehicles and attempted to target a security checkpost near the Kohat tunnel. The first vehicle entering the checkpost blew up as security forces fired on the attacker. The second vehicle exploded after hitting the boundary wall while the driver of the third escaped after leaving the vehicle outside the gate of the local checkpost. Earlier in the day militants blew up two important bridges at the Indus Highway, stopping traffic from Karachi to Peshawar. In January, the 1.8 km-long tunnel was at the centre of a military confrontation between the Pakistan Army and pro-Taliban militants. The militants had taken control of the tunnel after hijacking trucks carrying supplies and ammunition for security forces in the lawless South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan. On 27 January, the Pakistan Army claimed to have brought the tunnel back under control of the security forces, after "fierce fighting" involving artillery, helicopter gunships and heavy machine guns. |
| Posted by:Fred |