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Woman carried out suicide bombing in Pakistan

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Summary of story from The Guardian, August 11, 2011

A woman carried out a suicide bombing in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan yesterday.

According to police, the blast killed her and another woman, and the police are trying to ascertain whether the other woman was an accomplice or an innocent passer-by.

This occurred near a police check-post yards from where, less than an hour earlier, a remote-controlled bomb killed four policeman and a child and injured fourteen other people.

Female suicide bombing is rare in Pakistan, but any increase in the use of women for such attacks could complicate efforts by Pakistani security forces to stem the country’s growing Islamist insurgency.

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