Roadside bomb kills 14 people in Pakistan near Afghan border
Rescue worker stands near a damaged vehicle after it was hit during a bomb attack in Peshawar in this file picture. — Reuters pic PESHAWAR, Sept 16 — A roadside bomb killed 14 people in northern Pakistan today, police officials said, after it hit a truck carrying villagers to a market place near the border with Afghanistan.
Villagers in the Lower Dir area have been supporting government forces in the fight against Taliban insurgents.
Among the dead were three women and three children, the police said. Seven more people were wounded.
Support for the Taliban has fallen in some areas in the north, analysts say, in part because their bloody bombing campaigns have claimed so many civilian lives.
Since 2009, the army has increased its control in much of Pakistan's tribal areas, but insurgent attacks remain common. — Reuters
