4 troops hurt in Pakistan suicide attack
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into an army check post in northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing himself and wounding four soldiers, police said.
"It was a suicide bombing. The attacker came in a Pajero jeep and detonated it at the check post," senior police officer Mohammad Alam Shinwari told AFP.
The post in a sensitive garrison area of Bannu town was damaged by the blast, the latest in a series of militant attacks in the country.
Bannu in North West Frontier Province is close to the tribal region where Pakistani forces have been battling Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants for months.
Pakistan's tribal belt became a haven for hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists who fled the US-led toppling of Afghanistan's hardline Taliban regime in late 2001.
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