kaboom!outside a girls' school in Bannu on Thursday, a doctor said.
The bomb went off at the end of the school day as pupils walked into a street lined with fabric shops in the northwestern town of Bannu, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province.
Doctor Omar Zeb told news agency AFP that 11 people had been brought to the local hospital -- seven primary schoolgirls and four other people who had been in the street.
Police official Azad Khan told AFP that at least four girls, two boys and a man had been maimed. Three of them are at death's door he said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon...
a suspected bad turban was killed and another tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
by police during an overnight clash with residents in Bannu, DawnNews reported.
According to the police, residents of the area Haji Anwar Khel area spotted six suspicious men Wednesday night and asked them to stop. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the suspected men opened fire on the area's dwellers.
During an exchange of fire between the two sides, one suspect was killed whereas another was captured and handed over to the police. The remaining four suspects beat feet from the site of incident.
Approximately three kilograms of kaboom was also recovered from the men. Police said the suspects were aged between 14 and 15 years. A case was lodged against the suspected forces of Evil at the local cop shoppe.
The northwestern town of Bannu, which stands at the gateway to the semiautonomous
Wazoo tribal region, is 150 kilometres southwest of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, the capital of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The town has witnessed a number of attacks and was the scene of a massive jail break in April 2012 during which 384 prisoners beat feet from its central prison.