Pakistan: 8 dead, 5 injured in suicide bombings, police say - News

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A suicide bomber exploded at a checkpoint in western Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding five others, officials said.

The bomber triggered the blast from the back of a motor rickshaw near the town of Mir Ali in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a local police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Four police officers were killed alongside two members of a state paramilitary force and two civilians in the attack near the border with Afghanistan, he said.

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“Of the five injured, three persons are in critical condition and have been shifted to a local military hospital,” he added.

A local government official who also asked not to be named confirmed the same number of deaths and injuries.

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