Suicide bombing at police checkpoint in Pakistan kills at least 11

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A suicide bombing in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, killed at least 11 people and injured about 30 at a police checkpoint. The incident signals rising violence in the region bordering Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 30 others, officials said, in a sign of increasing violence in the region bordering Afghanistan. The attack occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the provincial emergency service. Local police chief Safdar Baloch said most of those killed and wounded were...