Kohat police comes under attack

Published January 1, 1970
At least ten people were killed and several others wounded when a car bomb exploded near the Cantt Police Station in the northwestern Pakistani town of Kohat, police officials said. The bomber ploughed his car into the outer wall of the police station in the town of Kohat, he said, adding that the building was badly damaged. Some school children are among the dead, another policeman at the scene added. Some 20 others have also been wounded. The toll may go up, another police official, Fazle Naeem, added.[imagebrowser id=9759]

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