'41 killed' in northwest Pakistan suicide blastForty-one people, most of them civilians, were killed Monday when a suicide attacker suicide attacker suicide n → Selbstmordattentäter(in) m(f) struck a military convoy A land or maritime convoy that is controlled and reported as a military unit. A maritime convoy can consist of any combination of merchant ships, auxiliaries, or other military units. near a busy market in northwest Pakistan, the provincial minister said. The bomber targeted the convoy as it passed through a security checkpost near a crowded bazaar in Alpuri town in Shangla, a district neighbouring Swat Swat (swät), district of the Malakand division, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Saidu Sharif is the capital. The largely inaccessible region is reached by air and through mountain passes from the south and east. valley and the target of a recent anti-Taliban offensive. "Forty-one people were killed and 45 were injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the suicide blast," said Mian Iftekhar Hussain, the information minister for the troubled North West Frontier Province. "Twelve of the injured are in serious condition." He said six of the dead were soldiers, although the army-run Swat Media Centre earlier put the military death toll at four. 
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