A suicide car bomber killed 11 people, including four children, on Saturday at a police check-point on the outskirts of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the latest string of militant attacks targeting the city, officials here said. “Ten people including a policeman were killed and 30 others injured in a powerful suicide car bomb blast in Peshawar (on Saturday),” a police official said.
The suicide car bomber hit his explosive-laden vehicle near a police check-post in Pishtakhara “as a result ten people were killed”. he added. Several vehicles were damaged and windows of nearby buildings were smashed, he said. The Peshawar blast came a day after suicide bomber killed over 20 people in two separate attacks on the offices of the security agencies. The death toll has since risen to 24. The police was manning checkpoints at all entry points to the city and were checking every vehicle, said a local government official, Sahibzada Mohammed Anis.
“Suddenly a car exploded with a big bang,” said police official Malik Jehangir, who was working at the check-point. “There was a long queue of the vehicles. One of our officials wanted to search the car when it exploded.” Mr Jehangir said 10 people were killed, including two people officials. Four children and a woman were among the dead civilians, he added. The Friday attack devastated the provincial headquarters in the city of Peshawar of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), destroying more than half the building. Meanwhile, at least 27 militants and soldiers died in separate terror and anti-terror incidents in various Pakistani cities on Saturday, officials said.