Pakistan Police Kill 2 Suicide Bombers, Blunting Attack on Courts<br />A bomber detonated his suicide vest outside the main entrance of the district courts in Charsadda to provide cover for the two other bombers to enter,<br />but the police shot and killed the two, said Suhail Khalid, a district police officer.<br />21, 2017<br />PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Two suicide bombers were fatally shot<br />and a third blew himself up on Tuesday while trying to attack a courthouse in northern Pakistan as violence continued to hit the country.<br />Mr. Khalid, the police officer, said that the two bombers in Charsadda who were<br />killed by the police detonated their vests before they were fatally shot.<br />The courthouse assault came after the country’s deadliest attack in years, a suicide bombing<br />that killed at least 88 people at a shrine in Sindh on Friday.<br />Jamaat-e-Ahrar, designated in August as a terrorist organization by the United States, was believed to be behind<br />the twin suicide bombings in an administrative compound in Mohmand last week that killed five people.<br />The group also claimed a suicide bombing at a protest camp in Lahore two days before the Mohmand bombing.
