Landmine blast kills four in restive northwest Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A land mine explosion killed four people and wounded a number of others in northwest Pakistan’s restive Kurram district on Wednesday, police said. The blast occurred when one of the victims stepped on the device in a forested area in Kurram. Habibullah Khan, the district police officer, said the dead and a number of wounded were transported to a hospital in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan. He did not say how many people had been wounded.

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