DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: Gunmen opened fire on an ambulance attending the scene of a suicide bomb attack at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan that killed at least 12 people on Saturday (Sep 26) and wounded about 35 others, officials said.
The attack involving an explosives-laden vehicle occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the provincial emergency service. Local police chief Safdar Baloch said most of those killed and wounded were security personnel and passersby.
The blast destroyed the sprawling checkpoint, and witnesses said gunshots were also heard…
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