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Five Wounded, Including Soldiers, In Northwest Pakistan Bomb Blast

Officers examine a damaged police vehicle after a recent attack (file photo)
Officers examine a damaged police vehicle after a recent attack (file photo)

Five people, including two soldiers, were wounded on August 16 in an explosion that damaged a police vehicle outside Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, local authorities said. According to a police representative, the blast was caused by a remote-controlled bomb, but no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Six people have been arrested in connection with the incident and an investigation is ongoing. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has seen an increase in deadly attacks that mostly remained unclaimed while some of them were claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal, click here.

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