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Bomb blasts hit northwest Pakistan, 1 killed

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Press Trust of India Peshawar
Multiple bomb blasts shook Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province today, killing at least one policeman and injuring nearly a dozen people.

Officials said a police van was targeted with a roadside bomb in Mandi area. A policeman was killed and two more were injured.

Earlier, an attack by a suspected suicide bomber in Bannu wounded four paramilitary Frontier Corps personnel and two passers-by, media reports said.

Officials said the suspected bomber rammed his motorcycle into a security forces vehicle. Security forces cordoned off the area and conducted a search operation.

Another bomb attack on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Peshawar injured three persons.
 

Bomb disposal squad officials said an estimated five kilograms of explosives concealed in a cylinder went off near a police van on Kohat Road. The van was destroyed and two policemen and a woman were injured.

Rescue teams took the wounded to hospital while security forces cordoned off the area and conducted a search.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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First Published: Nov 16 2013 | 5:24 PM IST

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