Deadly blasts kill 12 in Pakistan


- Saturday turned deadly in northwest Pakistan as a dozen people were killed in two powerful bomb blasts, police said.

Six people died when a police station in the Bannu district of North West Frontier Province was targeted by a suicide car bomb, police said.

The suicide bomber was in a truck packed with an estimated 160kg (353 pounds) of explosives, Iqbal said. Among the 55 people injured were 28 policemen and 27 civilians. Dozens of nearby shops and buildings were destroyed.read more
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