<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A suicide bomber killed nine police officers and wounded 16 others on Monday in an attack on their truck in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">"The suicide bomber was riding a motorbike and hit the truck from behind,"&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">senior police official Abdul Hai Aamir told AFP.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The incident took place at Dhadar, the main town of Kachhi district, some 120&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">kilometres (75 miles) southeast of Quetta in Balochistan.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Mehmood Notezai, police chief for Kachhi district, told AFP the police were&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">returning from a week-long cattle show where they had been providing&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">security.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Security forces have been battling a years-long insurgency by Baloch&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify; ">militants demanding what they say is a fairer share of the province's wealth,&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">as well as attacks by the Pakistani Taliban. AFP</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>