| GEO Pakistan | | Three US soldiers among 9 killed in Dir blast | Updated at: 1550 PST, Wednesday, February 03, 2010
 DIR: Nine persons including three foreigners were killed and 65 others wounded in a bomb blast in tehsil Balambat of lower Dir.
The blast occurred in the roadside bombing in Koto village, about 10 kilometers (six miles) from Taimargara, the main town in lower Dir district. The explosion also damaged the girls’ school building.
According to US news agency, three US soldiers attached with the Frontier Corps (FC) as trainer were killed in the blast. Three girls students, a security man and two civilians were also killed in the blast. Sixty-five persons including 40 girls’ students sustained injuries in the incident. The bodies and injured were shifted to district headquarters hospital Timargara. Security forces have cordoned off the area.
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