By DPA,
Islamabad: At least five people were killed and 25 injured in a suspected car suicide bombing near a police check post in Pakistan’s northwestern region Saturday, officials said.
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car when the policemen tried to conduct a search in Pusht Khara area in Peshawar, the capital of country’s militant-infested North-Western Frontier Province (NWFP).
“According to the data we have received from the city’s three hospitals, five people are dead and 25 are injured,” said Sahebzada Anees, Peshawar’s top civilian administrator.
“Luckily, it was an open area and there were not many buildings in the vicinity otherwise the damages could be much higher,” he added.
An official at the police control room in the town said at least two policemen were among the dead.
Television footage showed three damaged vehicles, with the road littered with debris.
It was the fifth bombing in five days in Peshawar.
A car suicide bombing targeted the regional office of the country’s spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) Friday, killing 14 security personnel and three civilians. More than 60 people were injured in the blast.
The bombing was the latest in the string of attacks on security installations and civilian targets since government troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border in mid-October.