NEW DELHI -- A Taliban suicide bomber detonated explosives in a market in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing the town's anti-Taliban mayor and at least 11 other people, officials said.

The early morning attack in Adazai appeared aimed at the mayor, Abdul Malik, a onetime Taliban supporter who in recent years turned on the militants and raised a militia to protect his town, which isn't far from the city of Peshawar.

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