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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ishtiaq Mahsud and Munir Ahmed

Gunmen target ambulance in Pakistan after suicide bombing at checkpoint killed 12

Pakistan Suicide Attack - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Gunmen opened fire on an ambulance attending the scene of a suicide bomb attack at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan that killed at least 12 people on Saturday and wounded about 35 others, officials said.

The attack involving an explosives-laden vehicle 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 security personnel and passersby.

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