Suicide bomber kills four Pakistani policemen
Source: Reuters
(Adds more information, background) ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a car killed four policemen and wounded two in an attack in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, police said. Violence has escalated in Pakistan since a peace deal with tribal fighters linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda broke down in North Waziristan, and after the army assaulted a militant mosque in the capital, Islamabad. Senior police officer Mohammad Iqbal in the northwestern town of Swat told Reuters the bomber was travelling in a car and blew himself up when police stopped him at a checkpost. "He broke a police cordon-off and then he blew himself up when he was stopped at another checkpost," Iqbal said. He said four policemen were killed and two wounded in the attack.
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