PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber flung himself at a military convoy passing through a busy market in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing 41 people in the latest in a wave of deadly strikes, the military said. The bomber targeted a paramilitary convoy as it passed through a security checkpost in a bazaar in Alpuri town in Shangla, a district neighbouring Swat valley and the target of a recent anti-Taliban military offensive. Pakistan's army claims to have cleared Swat and nearby districts of the Taliban threat in an offensive launched in April, and are now poised to start a similar ground and air assault in the nearby northwest tribal belt.
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41 dead as a 13 year old suicide bomber hits NW Pakistan
