2 Police officers killed in explosion outside court in Pakistan

Two police officers, including a woman officer, were killed and eight others were injured when Nowshera district courts were attacked on Tuesday, police said. \"It was a bomb blast. Two police officers were killed and eight others were wounded. There are two police officers among the injured,\" Pakistani TV channel (Duniya) quoted Quresh Khan, a police chief in Nowshera district, as saying. The district courts are located close to several military and other government buildings. The target of the attack was district courts, Khan said, adding that the bomb disposal experts had informed him that a remote-controlled device was planted at the main gate of the district courts. A doctor in Nowshera s main hospital said they received two dead bodies and six injured.