'Six killed in suicide blast on Pak airforce bus'

Islamabad, Nov 1: At least six people were killed and 40 wounded in a suicide attack on a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) bus near the city of Sargodha, the military said.

''The bus was carrying PAF personnel when it was struck by a suicide bomber near the Sargodha airbase,'' Air Commodore Sarfraz Ahmed Khan, a PAF spokesman told Reuters.

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The attack comes amid escalating militancy by Islamist guerrillas across Pakistan over the past three months.

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