Roadside bombing kills cops near border


A POWERFUL roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in the country’s northwest near the Afghan border, killing a city police chief and two junior officers, ­officials said.

The bombing took place Friday in the city of Hangu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as the officers were heading to a police station that had been attacked less than an hour earlier, local police chief Adam Khan said.

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