Car bomb kills five, wounds 25 in Pakistan
Pakistan: A suicide car bomb targeting a police station
Thursday killed five people and wounded 25 others in a restive
northwestern Pakistani town, police said.
A police officer and four civilians died in the attack in Doaba town
in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Hangu
district, senior local police official Abdul Rashid told AFP.
“The bomber, riding an explosive-packed car, blew himself up near a
police station, killing five people and wounding 25 others,” Rashid
said. The bomber had been aiming to strike the building but failed to do
so because of barricades that had been erected outside, he said. Part of
the police station was still completely demolished by the blast, Rashid
added, with the impact also damaging at least 10 nearby houses.
“No one has so far claimed responsibility for the incident,” Rashid
said. Another senior local police official, Muhammad Masood Khan Afridi,
confirmed the attack and casualties. Peshawar, Thursday, AFP |