February 2010 Lower Dir bombing

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February 2010 Lower Dir bombing
Part of War in North-West Pakistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.svg
Location of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan
Location Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Date3 February 2010
TargetGirls' school
Attack type
 Suicide school bombing, Mass murder, terrorism
Deaths8
Injuredat least 70
Perpetrators Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

The February 2010 Lower Dir bombing was a suicide bombing in the Lower Dir District area of Pakistan on 3 February 2010. [1] At least 8 people, including three American soldiers, died. Three schoolgirls were among the dead. [2] Another 70 people, including 63 schoolgirls, were among the injured. [1]

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Attack

The soldiers were travelling in a convoy and headed for the inauguration of a girls' school. They were part of a contingent of approximately 70 soldiers training Pakistani soldiers in counter-insurgency. [3] The bomb went off near another girls' school in the village of Koto along the way. The Koto Girls High School was flattened, leaving the girls crying under the rubble. [1] The American soldiers were helping train the Pakistan Frontier Corps. [4]

Aftermath

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the bombing. They claimed that the attack was in retaliation for the October 2008 attack by Blackwater Worldwide in Peshawar. [5] Pakistan arrested 35 people in connection with this bombing. [6] However, a backlash against U.S. troop presence in Pakistan did not happen against some analysts' predictions. [3]

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