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Pakistan suicide bomber blows self up during raid

Society Materials 22 August 2009 18:56 (UTC +04:00)

The army says a suicide bomber has blown himself up to evade capture during a raid in a town in Pakistan's troubled northwestern Swat Valley, Associated Press reported.

The army says they spotted the bomber Saturday during a search of a residential area of Kanju, a town north of Swat's main city of Mingora. Spokesman Lt. Col. Akthar Abbas says security forces chased the man, who ran into a house and blew himself up.

Abbas would not say whether anyone else was wounded in the explosion. Local media said two security officials were killed and two others were wounded.

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