Police Vehicle, Checkpoint Attacked

Police have been targeted by a pair of bomb attacks in Pakistan's northwest, Al Jazeera (Qatar) reports.

In one attack on Thursday, a remote-controlled bomb destroyed a vehicle carrying police and paramilitary forces in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province's Bannu district, killing three security personnel and wounding five others, said local police officials.

Also Thursday in the same province, a police checkpoint in the town of Bara was hit, killing one officer and wounding four...