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Huge suicide bomb kills four at Pakistan police station

25 May 2011 07:52 (UTC +04:00)

A Taliban suicide bomber Wednesday rammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in Peshawar, flattening the three-storey building and killing four people, officials said, APA reports quoting â€œAgence France Presseâ€.
Pakistan’s Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the northwest, their fourth in reprisal for the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. commandos north of Islamabad on May 2.
We will further step up these attacks to avenge Osama bin Laden’s martyrdom," Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. He added: "These attacks will continue until the U.S. drone strikes and ongoing Pakistani military operations are stopped in the tribal regions."