PESHAWAR: Two people were killed and 27 wounded yesterday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said.
The attack took place early in the morning in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, rife with Taliban and Al Qaeda-led militancy.
“Two people, including a woman and a policeman, have been killed in the suicide attack near Domail police station in Bannu,” local police chief Abdul Ghafoor Afridi said.
A doctor at a government hospital said they had received 23 people with injuries.
“Of them, two were critical and have been sent to the military hospital,” Dr Sher Afzal said.
“Among the injured, there were two women, three children aged between two and five years and five policemen,” Afzal said.
Afridi said seven houses and part of the police station were damaged.
Another police official said the suicide bomber attacked from behind the building as authorities had deployed security around the police station.
“He hit a barrier installed at a distance from the police station. The woman killed in the attack was a civilian,” said Azmat Ali Khan, a senior police official.
A bomb disposal squad official said more than 500kg of explosives were used.
“The vehicle used for the attack was destroyed,” said Kismat Khan, the bomb squad official.
AFP
