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Suicide bomber kills three in north-west Pakistan
Nov 9, 2009, 4:48 GMT
Islamabad - A suicide bomber blew himself up Monday at a police post in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar, killing at least three people, officials said.
A policeman, who had stopped a motorized rickshaw in which the attacker was travelling, was among the dead, Peshawar police chief Liaquat Ali Khan said.
Five people were wounded in the blast, which took place on a street leading to the main Ring Road in the capital of North-West Frontier Province.
The attack came a day after a suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban mayor and militia leader and 12 other people at a cattle market on the city's outskirts.
Peshawar has been hit by a string of attacks in recent weeks. More than 110 people were killed when a car bomb hit a crowded market last month.
The strikes were being seen as the Taliban's response to Pakistan's offensive against militants in the South Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border.
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