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| At least three people have been killed and eight injured by a bomb attack in Mingora, the main city in Swat region in north-west Pakistan, police say. | |
| Television footage showed black smoke billowing into the air and cars destroyed by the blast in a market. | Television footage showed black smoke billowing into the air and cars destroyed by the blast in a market. |
| The target of the attack appeared to be an army convoy - two of those killed were soldiers. Some reports say the blast was followed by shooting. | |
| Attacks have been rare in Swat since the army ousted militants last year. | Attacks have been rare in Swat since the army ousted militants last year. |
| "I can confirm three people have been killed and eight were injured in the attack," Mingora's deputy inspector general of police, Mohammad Idrees Khan, told the BBC Urdu service. | |
| According to witnesses, the bomb went off as an army patrol passed a bus stand near the city centre. | |
| There were conflicting reports about the death toll, as some aid workers said as many as eight people had died in the attack. | |
| Police say it remains unclear whether it was a suicide attack or a roadside bomb. | |
| This is the first major attack inside heavily guarded Mingora since the army recaptured it from the Taliban last summer. |