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A vendor organizes mosquito nets outside his shop in Peshawar, Pakistan, May 26. Medical experts have advised Pakistanis to take preventive measures to protect themselves from the dengue virus, which is increasingly becoming an epidemic in Pakistan. The disease spread more rapidly in 2011 than in previous years, killing over 300 people with over 14,000 infected.
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Pakistani policemen take position during a militant attack on a police station in Peshawar on Feb. 24, 2012. Four policemen were killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up in the attack, officials said.
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A police officer stands at a police station after a suicide attack in Peshawar on Feb. 24, 2012.
The Associated Press reports: Taliban suicide bombers armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a large police station in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing four officers and wounding six in an assault meant to avenge the death of a militant commander in a U.S. drone strike.
Peshawar has been a frequent target of militant attacks over the last few years, but most have been bomb blasts, not coordinated assaults in the center of the city such as Friday's attack.
City police chief Imtiaz Altaf said three militants entered the compound after attacking the main gate, then blew themselves up when police returned fire.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan told The Associated Press the attack was carried out by an affiliated group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigade.
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A man who was injured in a blast while allegedly planting a bomb on a roadside, is wheeled into a local hospital in Peshawar on Feb. 24, 2012.
msnbc.com news services report from PESHAWAR, Pakistan:
Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least three children, a teacher and the driver, a police official said.
Fifteen children were wounded, he said. The children on the bus were around nine years old.
"First a rocket was fired, but it didn't hit. Then gunmen opened fire," said Sahibzada Sajjad, deputy superintendent of police in Peshawar, where Taliban militants, who are close to al-Qaida, often carry out attacks. Continue reading.
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A tear runs down a boy's face as he lies on a bench after being treated for his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sept. 13. Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in Peshawar on Tuesday, a police official said.
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Security officials inspect the school van which was attacked by unknown gunmen on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sept. 13.
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Schoolboys who were injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at their school van, receive medical treatment at a local hospital in Peshawar on Sept. 13.
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The AP reports from PESHAWAR, Pakistan:
A burqa-clad female suicide bomber attacked police at the scene of an earlier explosion in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, twin strikes that killed five people and broke a relative lull in militant violence in the country. Continue reading.
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Family members hold onto a man, crying as the body of his dead brother, a policeman, is brought to the Lady Reading Hospital after an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, on August 11. Four policemen and one child were killed and 14 people wounded when a remote-controlled bomb concealed in a push-cart exploded, police said. An hour later and yards from the initial bombing, a woman covered in a head-to-foot burqa carried out a suicide bombing, killing herself and another woman, police said.
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A boy who survived the initial bomb attack is brought to the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar on August 11.
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The blood-stained wreckage of a police van following a bomb explosion in Peshawar on August 11.
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Pakistani fire fighters extinguish a fire burning NATO supply trucks after a bomb hit them at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar on Aug. 6. At least sixteen tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan were gutted late on Saturday, when a bomb hit them at a terminal in northwest Pakistan, police said.
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Injured victims of multiple bomb blasts await treatment after arriving at the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar June 12. At least 25 people were killed when two blasts ripped through a market area in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar late on Saturday, police said.
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Riaz Khan of AP reports: PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber struck a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 36 mourners and wounding more than 100 in the deadliest militant attack in the country this year. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
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Relatives of the victims of a suicide bomb blast targeting the funeral procession of an anti-Taliban militiaman's wife, cry at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on March 9.
The blast near the city of Peshawar was not far from the tribally administered regions bordering Afghanistan where militants are at their strongest. The area struck is home to several tribal armies that battle the Taliban with the government's encouragement.
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Medics assist a man injured by a suicide bomb attack at a funeral procession on the outskirts of Peshawar, at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar on March 9.
Police officer Zahid Khan said about 300 people were attending the funeral for the wife of a militiaman in the Matani area when the bomber struck. TV footage showed men picking up bloodied sandals and caps from a dusty, open space where mourners had gathered.
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A man stands next to sandals at the site of a suicide bomb attack on the outskirts of Peshawar on March 9.
Witnesses said the bomber, who appeared to be in his late teens, showed up at the funeral just as it was about to begin. "We thought this youth was coming to attend the funeral, but he suddenly detonated a bomb," survivor Syed Alam Khan said.
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Relatives of the victims of a suicide bomb blast cry at a hospital in Peshawar on March 9.
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Firemen try to extinguish fires after tankers were set on fire in Peshawar, Pakistan on Feb. 25. Militants attacked tankers bringing fuel to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Friday, killing four people and causing a massive nighttime blaze.
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Firefighters attempt to extinguish burning NATO oil tankers following an attack at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar on Feb. 25.
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Firefighters try to extinguish burning oil tankers in Peshawar on Feb. 25.
Militants in northwestern Pakistan blew up at least 11 tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan and shot dead four people, police said.
In recent years tankers carrying oil for NATO troops have been regularly targeted by Islamic militants on both sides of the border. U.S. and other NATO forces in landlocked Afghanistan get around 75 per cent of their food and military supplies through Pakistan.
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Rescue workers examine the wreckage of a police vehicle after a bomb explosion on the outskirts of Peshawar on Feb. 8. Bomb attacks on Feb. 8 killed at least two Pakistani soldiers and a policeman in the country's northwest, which is in the grip of a Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked insurgency, officials said.
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Paramedics treat an injured girl, victim of a car bomb blast, at a hospital in Peshawar on Feb. 2. A car bomb tore through a packed market, killing nine people in the sixth attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar in less than a week, officials said.
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A girl is treated by medics at the Lady Reading hospital after suffering injuries from a bomb attack in Peshawar on Feb. 2.
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Locals topple over a burnt out car after a car bomb blast near a market in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Feb. 2. A bomb planted in a car exploded, ripping through a residential area killing 9 people and injuring over 20.
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Residents move a damaged vehicle from the site of a bomb attack in Peshawar on Feb. 2.
A car bomb killed nine people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday, the latest in a rash of attacks that are challenging recent police claims of progress against Islamist militants in the region. Full story.
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A rescue worker looks at a rickshaw which was hit by a bomb attack outside a children's school in Peshawar, Jan. 19, 2011.
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A Pakistani student injured in a bomb explosion receives treatment at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A bomb exploded outside a school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others.
The AP reports:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A bomb on a horse-drawn cart exploded outside a school in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 14 others, including children.
One of the children was in critical condition, hospital official Sahib Gul said.
The identity of the man killed in the attack in the main northwestern city of Peshawar was not immediately known.
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Rescue workers and police survey a school van damaged after a bomb explosion in Peshawar, January 12.
According to Reuters: Two small roadside bombs hit a school van on the outskirts of northwestern Peshawar, killing two female teachers and wounding seven, including three children, police said.
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