A female suicide bomber killed six people \u2014 including two policemen \u2014 in Pakistan\u2019s restive northwest Sunday in an attack claimed by the Taliban, officials said.<\/p>\n
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A female suicide bomber killed six people \u2014 including two policemen \u2014 in Pakistan\u2019s restive northwest Sunday in an attack claimed by the Taliban, officials said.<\/p>\n
The attack happened at the entrance of a hospital in Kotlan Saidan village on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Dera Ismail Khan.<\/p>\n
District police chief Salim Riaz told AFP that police were helping move the bodies of two of their colleagues \u2014 who had been shot dead by militants on Saturday \u2014 when the suicide bomber struck.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe female bomber, aged around 28 years, came on foot and blew herself up, killing two policemen and four civilians and wounding 13 others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The injured included eight policemen and five civilians.<\/p>\n
Another local police official, Malik Habib, confirmed the attack and casualty figures and said officers later recovered the mutilated head of the bomber.<\/p>\n
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Muhammad Khurasani claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to local media.<\/p>\n
Pakistan has seen an improvement in security in recent years, but low-level attacks are still carried out with devastating regularity \u2014 often targeting security forces in the northwest and the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
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