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Blast near Pakistan girls school Foreigners die in Pakistan blast
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Police say there has been an explosion near a girls school in north west Pakistan, with foreigners reportedly among the casualties. Police say three Westerners are among six people killed in an explosion near a girls' school in north west Pakistan.
Reports said that the blast happened near a school in the Lower Dir area. A group of journalists and aid workers was travelling in an army convoy when it was hit by a roadside bomb in the Lower Dir area, officials said.
A district police officer told local Pakistani TV that three foreigners were among the casualties. At least 19 people, including school girls, were injured in the blast.
It is not yet clear what caused the blast, although local reports said it was caused by an improvised explosive device. Pakistani troops carried out a major offensive in the area last year to crush Taliban militants who have often attacked girls' schools.
The BBC's Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says a bomb was detonated when a military convoy was passing a road beside the school in Koto, a heavily populated village in the Lower Dir district in North West Frontier Province.
The convoy was on the way to Maidan, an area of Lower Dir district which is the base of a pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Sufi Mohammad, and a stronghold of Taliban militants, our correspondent says.