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India-Pakistan
Blast injures 3 in Bannu
2007-08-08
An explosion near a police station in Bannu injured three people, including a child, Geo news reported late on Tuesday. According to the channel, miscreants planted explosives in a vehicle and parked it near the police station. The explosion injured three people passing by the vehicle. Bannu senior superintendent of police said the injuries were not severe. It was a low-intensity device weighing less than a kilogram, he added. Later, Aaj television reported that four loud explosions were heard in Bannu. The channel quoted police officials as saying that rockets might have been fired at the city, while the city administration alerted hospitals for emergency situations.

online adds: Police arrested at least 14 people, including 11 alleged militants, trying to illegally enter Balochistan from the NWFP and also seized a large weapons cache. Alleged foreign militants were on their way to Balochistan via Dera Ismail Khan in two pickup trucks, but security forces cordoned off the area and arrested them. Tajik nationals Agha Muhammad, Abdul Ghaffar, Samiullah and Bashir, Uzbek nationals Muhammad Hussain, Shah Wali, Muhammad Latif, Sheer Ahmed and Muhammad Taqqi, and an Afghan, Wahidullah, were arrested. Three local aides - Abdullah, Sarwar Khan and Hakeem Khan - were also arrested. They told interrogators that they were Taliban.
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