Re: Pakistan ‘suicide blast kills 35’
Bomber kills 42 Pakistani troops
A suicide bomber has killed at least 42 soldiers as they exercised at an army training school in north-west Pakistan.
It is the deadliest attack by militants on the army since it began operations against pro-Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters close to the Afghan border.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
It happened in the town of Dargai in North West Frontier Province, not far from where the army said it killed some 80 militants last week.
The BBC’s M Ilyas Khan says Wednesday’s attack could undermine recent agreements between the military and pro-Taleban militants in other border areas.
Emotions in the region have been running high since an air strike on a religious school (madrassa) last week in the neighbouring area of Bajaur, in which the army said 80 militants were killed. Local people insisted the dead were innocent religious students.
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