Suicide Bombing at Pakistan Peace Rally Kills 17 Including Seven Police Officers

Three hospital deaths raised the confirmed toll from a northwest Pakistan attack where security personnel comprised over 40 percent of the fatalities.

Seventeen people died in a suicide bombing at a peace rally in northwest Pakistan on August 3, according to police officials who revised the casualty count upward after three injured persons succumbed to their wounds at a hospital [1]. The single report from Deccan Herald establishes the current death toll and confirms that seven of the dead were police personnel, meaning security forces accounted for more than 40 percent of the total fatalities [9]. No other publisher has filed on this incident as of this writing, and the record carries no claim of responsibility or identification of the specific town where the rally took place.

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