Three killed in attack on police checkpoint

Описание: (29 May 2009) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of scene where blast took place showing burning cars
2. Smoke and flames at scene
++INTERIOR SHOTS++
3. Injured man in hospital
4. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Miran Shah, Superintendent Police Officer:
"Police and the army had closed the south circular road and during that time a suicide bomber came by car and the blast happened in which one policeman died and six others were injured, including inspectors and an ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) member."
++NIGHT SHOTS++
5. Police van arriving on scene
STORYLINE
Militants in northern Pakistan detonated two bombs in a busy market on Thursday and attacked two police checkpoints, killing at least 14 people, wounding scores more and testing the resolve of the government as it takes on the Taliban in the Swat Valley.
The attacks in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan happened within two hours of each other and came a day after an assault on security forces in the eastern city of Lahore killed around 30 people.
That strike was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, who warned of further attacks unless the government called off the Swat offensive.
The attack in Dera Ismail Khan, 150 miles (240 kilometres) south of Peshawar, involved a suicide bomber who rammed a three-wheeler taxi into a police checkpoint.
One police officer and two civilians were killed, according to officials.
The military launched a major offensive in the Swat region late last month after the Taliban seized control of a neighbouring district in a bold bid to
extend their influence.
The US and other Western allies see the campaign as a test of the Pakistani government's resolve to take on the spread of militancy.

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