11 killed in a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan
Badhon : At least 11 soldiers were killed and 13 wounded on Saturday in a suicide attack near an army base in northern Pakistan, officials said, in a region that was once controlled by a local faction of the Taliban. The Pakistan Army’s public relations wing said in a statement that the ‘suicide attack’ in the Swat Valley took place at the ‘army unit sports area’. AFP
‘The soldiers were playing volleyball in the evening outside the military base…when a suicide bomber managed to blow himself up,’ said a security official who asked not to be identified.
The match was also being watched by civilians, and the casualty count could rise as a large number of people had gathered in the area, he said, adding that wounded were being shifted to a nearby military hospital. The attack was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, in a statement sent to the media.