Suicide attack kills six troops in Pakistan: police
- Published: 24/12/2011 at 05:32 PM
- Online news: World
A suicide car bomb attack in northwest Pakistan killed six soldiers and wounded about a dozen others on Saturday, police said.
File illustration photo shows soldiers patrolling a street in Bannu city. A suicide car bomb attack killed five soldiers and wounded 12 others on Saturday in northwest Pakistan, police said.
The attack took place in Bannu city where the bomber targeted the camp office of the paramilitary Frontier Corps troops, who are deployed in militant-infested North Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
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