Islamabad, August 30: An official says a suicide bomber has killed at least 12 police recruits near the main police station in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. It is one of the largest attacks in the northwestern valley since the army said it regained control of it from Taliban militants.
Television footage from the scene Sunday showed officers gathering up mutilated bodies outside the station in the valley’s main town of Mingora.
Police dispatcher Mohammad Akhtar says the blast came as new recruits were being trained.
Provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain says 12 members of a new community police force were killed while training near the station when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives.
—Agencies