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Pakistani Taliban claim attack on paramilitary academy


    MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility on Friday for a suicide bomb attack on paramilitary academy in a northwestern town that killed at least 69 people.

    "It's the first revenge for the martyrdom of ... bin Laden. There will be more," Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.

    U.S. forces killed bin Laden in his hideout in a Pakistani town on May 2.

    (Reporting by Haji Mujtaba; Writing by Robert Birsel)