4/18/10 - Suicide Bomber Drove Truck Bomb into Police Station - Kohat, Pakistan
Sunday, April 18, 2010
9:24 PM
Claire Morcos
Labels: 04/10 , Kohat , Pakistan , Suicide Bomber , Taliban , Truck Bomb , 0 comments
Date: April 18th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber, Truck Bomb (Truck loaded w/ 250 kilograms of explosives)
Location: Saddar police station in Kohat, Pakistan
Death Toll: 7
Injury Toll: 26
Perpetrators: Taliban
The Washington Post explains:
Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility in a telephone call to police in Kohat, police said later.
A militant spokesman had said the attack on the police station was in response to police arrests and the killing of militants, said a police spokesman in Kohat town.
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After its offensives in Swat, South Waziristan and Bajaur, the military has been attacking militants in other areas, including the Orakzai region, where many of the Islamists who fled the earlier offensives are believed to have taken refuge.
The army says more than 300 militants had been killed in fighting in recent weeks in Orakzai and the Kurram region but there has been no independent confirmation of the deaths.