Pakistani security forces are being credited with saving the lives of two American diplomats and two Pakistani U.S. consular staff members who were apparently targeted by a suicide car-bomber in the city of Peshawar on Monday, according to The Washington Post.
“I am grateful for the humane professionalism of the local Pakistan security forces who saved the lives of the two American diplomats and the two local staff of [the consulate] by pulling them to safety after their vehicle was attacked,” Richard Hoagland, the charge d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, said in a statement.
Four people were killed, and over a dozen others were injured, when what the Post describes as a “explosives-laden car” rammed into a vehicle carrying the four consulate workers.
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