14:07 11/06/2015
Peshawar — A suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle attacked a
vehicle carrying a deputy commander of police in northwestern Pakistan
on Thursday, killing two policemen and wounding three others, police
said.
The deputy commander, Malik Tariq, was among those wounded
in the attack in Peshawar, the city's police chief Mian Muhammad Saeed
said.
He said the attacker blew himself up as Tariq's vehicle
passed through Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,
bordering Afghanistan.
Mohammad Khurasani, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility and warned of more attacks.
The militant group has spent nearly a decade fighting to overthrow the government and replace it with a hard-line Islamic state.
The
military meanwhile said a "cordon and search" operation in the nearby
North Waziristan tribal region resulted in the killing of 10 militants,
without providing further details. Pakistan launched a major offensive a
year ago in North Waziristan, a longtime haven for the Pakistani
Taliban and other militant groups.
The military says the operation
has killed over 1,300 militants since then and that 90 percent of the
region has been cleared of insurgents. Journalists have virtually no
access to the mountainous region along the Afghan border.
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