A suicide bombing outside Kabal police station in Swat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killed 15 people including six police personnel. Over 30 others were injured, with many in critical condition. The blast occurred near a public demonstration, prompting a security lockdown and search operation.
No one immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion is likely to fall on the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, which days ago ambushed a train, took about 400 people on board hostage and killed 26 hostages
The Jaffar Express, carrying some 400 passengers in nine coaches, was going from Quetta to Peshawar when militants derailed it using explosives and hijacked it
