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Article: Suicide bomber kills three in Pakistan.
- Article from:
- Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Reuters
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber in an auto-rickshaw blew himself up in Pakistan on Monday killing three people when police stopped him at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar, police said.
Islamist militants have unleashed a campaign of attacks in Pakistan in recent weeks in retaliation for a major offensive by security forces on their main bastion of South Waziristan on the Afghan border.
"It was a suicide attack. The bomber was in a rickshaw and detonated his explosives when the rickshaw was stopped for a check," said police official Zafar Khan.
"One of our constables, a passerby and the rickshaw driver ...