KOHAT: At least 11 people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed explosive-laden vehicle into the gate of a police station here, which turned the building of police station into rubble, Geo News reported Thursday.In suicide attack at Kohat Saddar Police station, at least four police vehicles were destroyed. Soon afterwards, emergency was declared in the hospitals and the security forces and police put security cordon around the area.The bodies of the deceased and injured in the attack and were taken to District Headquarters Hospital. According to hospital sources, two bodies could not be identified as yet.Kohat DIG Abdullah Khan also confirmed the killings of 11 people in the attack including three police personnel and 20 others were injured, of them, nine injured have been discharged after giving first aid.Abdullah Khan told Geo News that at least 100-kg explosives were used in the blast, adding a brown-coloured double-cabin vehicle, which came from Rawalpindi Road, was used in the attack.The police official said Saddar police station was the target of terrorists.The DIG Kohat said an investigation team headed by DIPO Dilawar Khan Bangash has been instituted. The team garnered clues fro the blast site.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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