Suicide bombing in Pakistan’s Swat Valley kills 15, including 8 police
A suicide attack in Swat Valley, northwest Pakistan, killed 15 people—eight of them police officers—and injured 22 others, authorities said.
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AIFifteen people, including eight police officers, were killed and 22 others injured in a suicide bombing in the Swat Valley region of northwest Pakistan.
Local police said in a statement that the attacker detonated his explosive vest at a busy intersection near a police station, resulting in casualties and injuries.
The attack comes just one day after the Pakistani military announced that one soldier and 12 militants were killed in two separate security operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, as part of ongoing efforts to combat armed groups.