Bomb at market kills 10 in northwest Pakistan
A bomb in a market in a town in northwest Pakistan killed at least 10 people on Wednesday, police said. It was planted in a small passenger bus parked at a bus stand, said police official Mohammad Jehangir, citing initial reports. Television channels said the attack may have been carried out by a suicide bomber.
Pakistan's US-backed government faces resilient Taliban insurgents who keep carrying out suicide bombings in defiance of a series of military offensives launched last year against their strongholds in the northwest. (Reuters)
