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FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan - Feb 8

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Tuesday, 8 February 2011 11:27 GMT

ISLAMABAD, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1055 GMT on Tuesday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* PESHAWAR - One policeman was killed and three wounded when a remote-controlled bomb exploded at a security checkpost near the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.

Separately, four trucks carrying fuel supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan caught fire after small bombs planted underneath them exploded in a market on the outskirts of Peshawar, witnesses said. There were no casualties.

* BANNU - Two paramiliatry soldiers were killed and two wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb near the northwestern town of Bannu, police said.

(Compiled by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Rebecca Conway)

(For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/places/pakistan.

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