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Roadside bombing kills 5 policemen in NW Pakistan
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October 1, 2011, Saturday
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AT least five policemen were killed and nine others injured this morning in a bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said official sources.
According to district coordination officer Farid Khan, the blast took place when a police van was hit a roadside bomb in Tor Ghar district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The remote controlled explosive, fixed on the roadside, destroyed the vehicle partially in which at least five policemen, including an officer, got killed on the spot while nine others were injured.
A police official told local media that the police van was taking 32 police personnel from Tor Ghar district to the police training center in Abbottabad city when it came under attack in Joghar area of the aforementioned district.
Rescue teams and security forces reached the site and shifted the injured to the nearby hospital in Batgram while the seriously injured were taken to the Abbottabad city for better medical treatment.
No group or militant wing has claimed responsibility yet. However, Pakistani Taliban, in an earlier statement released in last month, warned that the police personnel would be their main target in coming days.
Pakistani government declared the mountainous Tor Ghar (Black Mountain) as a new district this year and a new police force has been getting training to assume security responsibility.
Tor Ghar had attracted world's attention in May 2011 after the US military raided a compound in Abbottabad and killed Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
Local media had quoted residents as saying that the US helicopters had landed at Tor Ghar and received fuel there. Reports said that the security agencies had also picked up several people for alleged role to provide fuel to the US military.
According to district coordination officer Farid Khan, the blast took place when a police van was hit a roadside bomb in Tor Ghar district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The remote controlled explosive, fixed on the roadside, destroyed the vehicle partially in which at least five policemen, including an officer, got killed on the spot while nine others were injured.
A police official told local media that the police van was taking 32 police personnel from Tor Ghar district to the police training center in Abbottabad city when it came under attack in Joghar area of the aforementioned district.
Rescue teams and security forces reached the site and shifted the injured to the nearby hospital in Batgram while the seriously injured were taken to the Abbottabad city for better medical treatment.
No group or militant wing has claimed responsibility yet. However, Pakistani Taliban, in an earlier statement released in last month, warned that the police personnel would be their main target in coming days.
Pakistani government declared the mountainous Tor Ghar (Black Mountain) as a new district this year and a new police force has been getting training to assume security responsibility.
Tor Ghar had attracted world's attention in May 2011 after the US military raided a compound in Abbottabad and killed Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
Local media had quoted residents as saying that the US helicopters had landed at Tor Ghar and received fuel there. Reports said that the security agencies had also picked up several people for alleged role to provide fuel to the US military.
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