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Security post bomb kills soldier
A suicide bomber killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded nine on Tuesday, highlighting the growing militant threat a day after the top US commander in the region held security talks with Pakistani leaders.
- Reuters
- Published: 23:43 November 4, 2008
Islamabad: A suicide bomber killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded nine on Tuesday, highlighting the growing militant threat a day after the top US commander in the region held security talks with Pakistani leaders.
Doaba police official Omar Faraz Khattack said initially the soldiers were wounded in the attack on a security post: "One of them died on the way to hospital and one is seriously wounded." Another police officer said a human head, apparently that of the suicide bomber, had been found at the scene.
Violence has intensified in Pakistan, most of it in the northwest, since last year with a series of suicide attacks, most on the police, military and political leaders, in which hundreds of people have been killed.
The military has been battling Al Qaida and Taliban militants in two parts of the northwest since August, and the militants have stepped up their attacks in response.
Warplanes hit militant positions in the Bajaur region yesterday but there was no word on casualties, a military official said.
Two rockets landed near the runway at the airport in the northwestern city of Peshawar late on Monday but caused no damage.
General David Petraeus arrived in Pakistan on Sunday on his first foreign tour since taking charge of US Central Command.
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