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Suicide Bomber Hits Peshawar

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Eleven dead at police checkpoint in latest bombing.

A suicide bomber targeting a police checkpoint in Peshawar killed at least 11 people on Saturday, according to officials, and at least 25 others were injured. According to reports from the scene, a car wired with explosives was detonated as police moved to search it while it waited at the checkpoint. The incident was the third bombing in as many weeks in Peshawar, which was also the site of another car bomb on Friday and an explosion at a market two weeks ago that killed 100.

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