Pakistani police kill vendor suspecting him of being bomber
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Pakistani police have shot and killed a vendor they suspected of being a suicide bomber in a northwestern city.
Officer Mumtaz Khan says the vendor was riding a bicycle and didn't stop at a checkpoint outside a courthouse in Mardan city.
He says the police first rammed a vehicle into the bicycle when the vendor didn't listen to warning shouts and shot him when he tried to run away.
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Khan says the man died later, and that no explosives or weapons were found.
Pakistani police have been on high alert after a recent string of suicide bombings that have killed more than 125 people, the latest of them inside a court building in another northwestern city.
Pakistani Taliban-linked militants and the Islamic State group have claimed the brazen attacks.