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A bomb has exploded at a police station in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, as the military continues to battle Taliban fighters in the northwest of the country.
Local media reported that at least one person had been confirmed dead in the explosion on Saturday. Police said that the building was the base for an emergency response unit. Local Dawn television reported that the bomber had blown himself up as police had opened fire on him. There have been a number of bomb attacks in cities across Pakistan in apparent retaliation to the army's offensive in North West Frontier Province. On Friday, a suicide bombing at a mosque in Upper Dir, which borders the Swat valley region where the fighting is taking place, killed at least 30 people. At the end of May, the Tehrik-i-Punjab, a group with links to the Taliban claimed responsibility for a bombing in Lahore that killed at least 30 people and wounded another 200. The attack targeted a police station and the offices of the Inter-Intelligence Service (ISI), Pakistan’s spy agency.
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