Jail Official, 4 Others Killed in Ambush
From Times Wire Reports
Gunmen on motorcycles ambushed a senior Pakistani jail official in the southern port city of Karachi, killing him and four others, police said.
Amanullah Niazi, deputy superintendent of the Karachi Central Prison, his driver, two of his bodyguards and a passerby were killed.
In other violence, a roadside bomb blast killed a soldier and wounded five in a northern tribal region, just hours after a land mine exploded in the same area, wounding two soldiers.
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