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| Bomb kills five cops in Shangla |
| 2013-05-28 |
| PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the troubled northwest on Monday killing five policemen, including a senior officer, police said. The explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device planted by the roadside in Paryana village of Shangla District, officials said. Puran Tehsil DSP Khan Bahadar Khan was killed along with four other policemen in the blast. The police vehicle was targeted with a roadside bomb, Malakand DIG Abdullah Khan confirmed. He added that five policemen, including Bahadar Khan, died in the attack. “The police force was on a routine patrol when the DSP’s vehicle was targeted with a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) which destroyed the vehicle,” DIG Abdullah Khan told media in Mingora. Police official Arif Khan said the high intensity bomb destroyed the van the officers were in and killed them. “Some of the dead bodies are badly mutilated,” Khan told AFP. |
| Posted by:Steve White |