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Bomber hits Pakistan air base
23.10.09
A suicide bomber struck a checkpoint near a major air force complex in north-west Pakistan today, killing seven people.
The blast was the latest in a wave of militant strikes at security installations as the Pakistan army wages an anti-Taliban offensive along the Afghan border in south Waziristan.
More than 170 people have been killed in the past three weeks.
The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex at Kamra is the country's major air force maintenance and research hub.
A lone suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself at a checkpoint on a road leading to the complex, about 30 miles from the capital Islamabad.
Police officer Akbar Abbas blamed the Taliban for the attack.
The seven dead included two soldiers. Another 13 people were wounded.
