Attack on foreign diplomats' convoy kills police officer in Pakistan
A roadside bomb hit a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing a police officer in their security detail, police said.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A roadside bomb hit a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing a police officer in their security detail, police said.
Zahidullah Khan, a police officer from the Swat district, told NBC News that the diplomats were on their way toward a tourist resort “when a police van escorting their convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device.”
One police official died on the scene and three others were injured, he said adding that the diplomats were visiting the Swat valley area on the invitation of local chamber of commerce.
Mohammad Ali Gandapur, the Police Deputy Inspector General of police in Swat, said that all the foreign ambassadors were safe and that the attackers had targeted a police vehicle.
Ambassadors from Indonesia, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Iran, Russia, and Tajikistan were among those in the convoy, police said.
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