At least nine police officers were injured in three blasts in Dera Ismail Khan late Thursday, officials said. Motorbike riders threw a hand grenade at an emergency police office in Dera Ismail Khan, wounding five policemen, three of them seriously, local police chief Mohammad Iqbal said.
Within half an hour two more grenades were lobbed on two police posts near the town's main bus station, wounding four more officers, Iqbal told AFP. Hospital officials said eight police had been admitted. "We have received eight people, three of them are in serious condition," doctor Ashiq Saleem of a state-run hospital told AFP. "They are all police officials," he added.
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