Suicide blast in Swat kills two

Published November 7, 2008

MINGORA, Nov 6: At least two security personnel were killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a building housing Frontier Corps men near the Swat police lines on Thursday night.

Security personnel cordoned off the area and fired in the air, making it difficult for ambulances to reach the place.

A local man said some women and children had also been injured. “We can’t take the injured to hospital because of firing by the security personnel,” he said.

He said that the four-storey building near the Ayub Bridge in Kanju had been destroyed.

This was the ninth suicide bombing in Swat area this year.

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