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Suicide bomber kills five people in NW Pakistan


    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber attacked a police van in the northwestern Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday, killing five people, including two policemen, a doctor said.

    "The bodies of two policemen, two children and a passer-by have been brought in," Qibla Khan, a doctor at the city's main hospital, told Reuters by telephone. Seven people had been wounded, he said.

    (Reporting by Kamran Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel)