11 killed in Pak suicide car bomb attack
Afp, Miranshah
A suicide car bomber attacked a Pakistani military convoy in a troubled tribal region bordering Afghanistan yesterday, killing 11 people including six soldiers, security officials said. The incident comes after clerics at a radical Islamabad mosque vowed suicide attacks in revenge for clashes with security forces which left 16 people dead including eight Islamist students.The bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the convoy near a checkpost at Mir Ali, a town in North Waziristan region, two officials in the area said on condition of anonymity. "The suicide bomber was blown to pieces and his car was totally destroyed" one of the officials told AFP. The targeted military vehicle was also badly damaged. Five soldiers and four civilian bystanders were killed instantly by the blast while one civilian and one soldier died later in hospital, the official said. Two civilians with serious shrapnel wounds were still in the hospital. Chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said he had so far received reports that four soldiers were killed and six injured, two critically, in an attack in Mir Ali.
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