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At least 18 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who attacked a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan.
The assailant drove a car loaded with explosives into the Hari Chand checkpoint in the Charsadda district on Wednesday, police said.
"Bodies of two civilians were found near the site of the attack, raising the death toll in the attack to 18," Nasrullah Khan, a local police official, told the AFP news agency early on Thursday.
Asif Ali Zardari, the president, and Yusuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister, have condemned the attack.
"The president said that the perpetrators of such a heinous crime would be brought to justice," a statement from Zardari's office said.
High alert
Police in the region were said to have been put on high alert before the attack.
"We had intelligence reports that a car bombing could take place in any of three districts of the province," Malik Naveed, a provincial police chief, said.
Charsadda district is 35km north of Peshawar, the capital of the restive North West Frontier Province, on the Afghanistan border.
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A Pakistani policeman holds a rocket launcher in Charsadda district.
Al-Jazeera
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