Blast in Pakistan’s Swat claims four lives

Blast in Pakistan’s Swat claims four livesPeshawar, Mar 12: At least two policemen and two suspected militants were killed in two separate explosions in the troubled Swat Valley.

The police personnel were killed while the security forces were trying to defuse a bomb near a village on the main road through the valley.

“A police bomb disposal unit was trying to defuse it when it exploded, killing two officials and wounding two others,” a security official told a foreign news agency.

The official also said that two militants were killed overnight in an explosion that took place in their house in Kabal district of the valley.

“They were probably making a bomb when it exploded prematurely, killing the house owner and another man staying with him,” the official said. (ANI)