Peshawar: A suicide car bomb attack in Bannu, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, killed nine soldiers and wounded about 18 others on Saturday, police said.
The attack took place in Bannu city where the bomber targeted the camp office of the paramilitary Frontier Corps troops, who are deployed in militant-infested North Waziristan.
“The bomber drove his explosives-packed vehicle into the FC building,” local police official Muhammad Shafiq said. The camp office was damaged in the attack..
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on the camp, which is a base for Frontier Corps troops, also known as the Tochi Scouts, before and after deployments in North Waziristan.
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