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| Policeman killed in Mardan suicide attack |
| 2013-03-31 |
| [Pak Daily Times] A policeman was killed and five others were maimed as a jacket wallah struck a police patrol in Mardan district on Saturday. "Police signalled two people riding a cycle of violence to stop. One of them opened fire on police instead," police officer Jaffer Khan said. Police retaliated and one of the injured bombers went kaboom!after falling from the cycle of violence," he said. The other suicide bomber was chased and rubbed out in the Katlang area, he added. "Additional Sub-Inspector Khushdal Khan died and two coppers were maimed," the police official told media. Three civilians were also injured in the incident, he said. It was unclear what target the bombers had set for themselves. "It was our success that the bombers were intercepted before they could reach their target," Jaffer said. Nobody immediately claimed the responsibility. Separately, a kaboom damaged a non-governmental organization office in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. early Saturday but caused no casualties, police said. The bomb went kaboom!outside the office of Society for Appraisal and Women Empowerment in Rural Areas (SAWERA). No loss of life was reported as the kaboom took place at 4am when the office was closed, senior management of the NGO working on women's empowerment in tribal areas, said. A official at Sawera said the organization had not received any specific threat but gunnies have attacked NGOs and aid workers in the past. |
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