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4 gov't officials killed in terrorist attack in NW Pakistan

Islamabad, Apr 18 (UNI) Four officials of Pakistan Customs were killed and two other people injured in a terrorist attack in the country's northwest Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, police officials said.
Unknown assailants riding motorcycles opened fire on the vehicle of an anti-smuggling squad of the Pakistan Customs during a routine patrol in the Saggu area of the district, killing four officials while injuring two passersby, Muhammad Adnan, a senior police official from Dera Ismail Khan Police, told Xinhua.
He said that the customs officials' vehicle collided with several other vehicles before veering off the road following the shooting, adding that the passersby got injured due to the collision of vehicles, with one of them sustaining critical injuries.
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