More than a dozen killed in bomb blasts, gunfire in Pakistan's northwest

Islamabad [Pakistan], February 18: Two bomb attacks and a gun battle between police and rebel fighters have killed more than a dozen people in northwest Pakistan.
One child and 11 security personnel were killed in an attack Bajaur district of volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, the Pakistani military said on Tuesday. Seven others, including women and children, were injured in the incident.
An explosives-laden vehicle detonated while being driven towards a security checkpoint in Bajaur, local police official Zafar Khan told The Associated Press news agency, adding that a girl was killed when a nearby building collapsed due to the force of the blast. The attack came after rescue officials said two people were killed earlier on Monday when explosives attached to a parked motorcycle detonated near the entrance of a police station in Bannu, another district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa near the Afghan border.
Source: Qatar Tribune