Pakistan: Bomb attacks in Peshawar and Chaman kill 3 troops
Peshawar |
Associated Press Jul 17, 2017 06:45 PM IST
Two bomb attacks in Peshawar and Chaman, targeting the security forces, killed three troops and wounded eight more.
Separate bombings targeted members of Pakistan’s paramilitary border force on Monday, killing at least three troops and wounding eight, officials said.
In the first attack, a Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle hit a Frontier Corps vehicle in Peshawar, near the Afghan border, killing two troops and wounding seven.
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A few hours later, a second bomb struck at Chaman in southwestern Balochistan province, also on the border with Afghanistan, killing a soldier and wounding another.
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