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Your support makes all the difference.The Pakistani Taliban said they used a female suicide bomber for the first time in an attack on a police station in north-western Pakistan that killed 10 people.
The woman was one of two attackers who threw grenades and sprayed machine gun fire inside the police station in Dera Ismail Khan on Saturday before both blew themselves up.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said that the attackers were a woman and her husband. He said the use of a female suicide bomber shows how much they hate Pakistani security forces.
There have been previous reports of female suicide bombers in Pakistan, but this is the first time the Pakistani Taliban has confirmed using one.
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