Pakistan: female suicide bomber carries out attack near police checkpost

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Source: Reuters

A woman carried out a suicide bombing in north-west Pakistan on Thursday, killing herself and another woman, police said, adding to security challenges confronting the country.

The bombing occurred near a police checkpost just yards away from where a remote-controlled bomb hit a police van less than an hour earlier, killing four policemen and a child.

The woman, said to be 25 years old, was wearing an explosive-laden vest and blew herself up in the heart of the north-western city of Peshawar.

"She exploded the vest as she came close to the checkpost. One policeman was wounded," police official Tariq Omar told Reuters.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/11/pakistan-female-suicide-bomber

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Pakistani officials inspect the site of a roadside explosion targeting a police van in Peshawar. The suicide bomb attack occurred an hour later. Photograph: Arshad Arbab/EPA