"Two bomb attacks and a gun battle between police and rebel fighters in northwest Pakistan have killed at least three people and possibly as many as a dozen, according to reports. The Associated Press news agency reported that two people were killed on Monday when explosives attached to a parked motorcycle detonated near the entrance of a police station in Bannu, a district in northwest Pakistan's volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border."
"Reporting on violence in Bajaur, the AFP news agency said eight people were killed when a suicide bomber drove a vehicle rigged with explosives into the wall of a religious college in the district. It was not known if the explosions reported at the security checkpoint in Bajaur and the seminary blast in the district were linked or separate attacks."
Multiple bomb attacks and a gun battle in northwest Pakistan killed at least three people and possibly as many as a dozen. Explosives attached to a parked motorcycle detonated near the entrance of a police station in Bannu, killing two people. An explosives-laden vehicle detonated while being driven toward a security checkpoint in Bajaur, collapsing a nearby building and killing a girl. At least eight Pakistan Taliban (TTP) members were killed by troops in a subsequent gun battle. A suicide bomber struck a religious college in Bajaur, killing eight police and Frontier Corps personnel and injuring ten. In Shangla, three police and three rebel fighters died during a search operation.
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