23 August 2008 Swat Valley bombing
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The 23 August 2008 Swat Valley bombing occurred on 23 August 2008 when a
suicide bomber A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout histor ...
rammed an explosive-laden car into a police station in Charbagh Tehsil of Swat valley of North West Frontier Province killing 20 people. The Tehrik-e-Taleban organisation claimed responsibility.


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List of terrorist incidents, 2008 This is a timeline of incidents in 2008 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines *To be included, en ...
* Swat valley#Taliban insurgency and attacks on non-combatants


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