A PAIR of Taliban suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits eagerly heading home for a break after months of training, killing 80 people in the first act of retaliation for the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

A pair of suicide bombers from Pakistan’s Taliban have killed 80 people in an attack at paramilitary training centre in first major retaliation for the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The Pakistani Taliban said today it carried out the twin blasts at a Frontier Corps training centre that killed at least 69 people, nearly all of them recruits, to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Nine people were killed in a suspected US missile strike on a militant stronghold near the Afghan border today, Pakistani officials said.

A suicide car bomber struck a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s volatile northwest today, killing at least 12 people, police said.