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| Bomb kills eight policemen in Swat |
| 2008-08-03 |
| At least eight police and security workers were killed on Saturday when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near their vehicle in Swat, officials said. Another five policemen were wounded in the blast in the valley's Kabal town, police officer Alam Khan said. "Their condition is very serious," Khan told AFP. The dead included six police and two paramilitary soldiers, he added. He said the vehicle was badly damaged and the bodies of two policemen were "badly mutilated". Officials said the police party was returning to base after a search operation in Kabal when the bomb planted by militants went off. However, Inspector Muhammad Wisaal, one of the wounded men, told Reuters in a hospital in Mingora that the policemen were returning from 'holiday' when the bomb exploded. Police officer Bashir Khan, meanwhile, told The Associated Press that the bomb targeted the police van because it was carrying money to pay the salaries of the staff in Kabal. |
| Posted by:Fred |