Four die after truck explodes

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

FOUR people were killed yesterday when a pick-up truck laden with explosives blew up outside a police station in north-western Pakistan.

The blast destroyed shops and homes and damaged the station and a nearby mosque in the town of Badh Ber, which lies close to a Pakistani air force base. Thirty other people were wounded.

The area has become the focal point for militant retaliation against an army offensive along the nearby Afghan border.

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Tuesday, November 17, 2009