Homicide attackers struck a police headquarters and a military convoy on Sunday in Pakistan's northwest, killing at least 28 people in an intensifying anti-government campaign in the border region long known as a haven for the Taliban and Al Qaeda.The bomber at the police headquarters in Dera Ismail Khan, near the Afghan border, struck as recruits were testing to join the force, said Gul Afzal Afridi, a police officer.
"It was a suicide bombing and the attacker mingled among the scores of people gathered for the test and physical examination," Afridi said.
More than 150 people were on the grounds of the police headquarters when the bomber struck, killing 14 people and wounding 30, some of them seriously. A man's head, severed from a mutilated body, was believed to be that of the suspected attacker, he said.
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