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Police say three Westerners are among six people killed in an explosion near a girls' school in north west Pakistan. Police say three Western aid workers are among at least six people killed after a roadside bomb hit a convoy in north-west Pakistan.
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 group of journalists and aid workers was travelling in an army convoy to the opening of a girls school in the Lower Dir area when it was hit.
At least 19 people, including school girls, were injured in the blast. At least 45 people, including school girls, were injured in the blast.
Pakistani troops carried out a major offensive in the area last year to crush Taliban militants who have often attacked girls' schools. Pakistani troops carried out a major offensive in the area last year to crush Taliban militants.
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 BBC's Mark Dummett says the convoy was heading to the inauguration ceremony of a new girls' school, but that the blast occurred near a different school.
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. A powerful device was detonated as the convoy drove past a school in Koto, a heavily populated village along the route, injuring several children there.
The convoy was on its way to Maidan, an area of Lower Dir district in North West Frontier Province, which is the base of a pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Sufi Mohammad, and a stronghold of Taliban militants.