Suicide Bomb Kills 30 in Pakistan, Official Says
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bombing at a funeral for a police officer killed at least 30 people and wounded 62 others today in northwestern Pakistan, a police official said.
The attack occurred in a government high school in Mingora town while funeral prayers were being held for a police officer killed in a roadside bombing earlier in the day, the deputy inspector general of police, Syed Akhtar Ali Shah, said.
Mingora, in Swat Valley, is 105 miles from Peshawar, a town at the border with Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s army was deployed in Swat earlier this year to quell an uprising led by a pro-Taliban cleric, and claims it has dispersed his thousands of militant followers but attacks persist.
Last Friday, a roadside bomb hit a wedding party, killing 12 people.
Taliban militants have stepped up attacks and taken control of tracts of northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan in the past several years. Before militants took root last summer, Swat attracted tourists because of its fine mountain scenery.
