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A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police station in northwestern Pakistan on
Tuesday, killing six people, including two children, officials said.
The attack occurred in the town of Bannu, which lies close to Pakistan’s tribal belt on the
Afghan border.
“It was a suicide attack. The bomber came on foot and detonated himself near a police
van close to a police station,” said Bannu police chief Iftikhar Khan.
“The death toll is now six. They include two boys aged seven and nine, one police official
and three pedestrians. Nineteen people were injured,” Khan told AFP.
Officials had said earlier that four people died.
“Our van was the target of the blast,” police official Raza Khan told AFP.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but Taliban militants
frequently bomb government security forces in the northwest.
Around 4,000 people have been killed in suicide and bomb attacks across Pakistan since
government forces raided an extremist mosque in Islamabad in 2007. The attacks have
been blamed on Taliban and al Qaeda-linked networks. (Dawn)
Pakistan on Monday defended its decision to deny a U.S. request to remove fuel from
one of its nuclear reactors despite reported concerns that it could be diverted to make
an illicit weapon.
The disagreement between the two allies first surfaced Sunday when several news
organizations reported details from nearly a quarter million classified U.S. diplomatic
cables released by the online whistle-blower Wikileaks.
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