FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2006
8:35 MECCA TIME, 5:35 GMT
Bomber targets Pakistan police
There has been a wave of attacks in recent weeks
Two policemen have survived a suicide bomb attack in the
northwestern
Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Iftikhar Khan, a police spokesman, said: "It was a suicide attack
and
the bomber was killed."
The bomber, a 20-year-old man and a resident of the city, was
identified at the scene of the explosion by his father after the
blast
on Friday.
The attacker detonated his explosives near a police pick-up truck
parked at a crossroads in Pishta Khara.
Muslim groups are suspected of being behind several recent attacks
in
the region amid anger over Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's
support for the Bush administration's 'war on terror'.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which
shattered the windows of the police vehicle and damaged a nearby
police post.
Anger inflamed
Pakistani security forces have also inflamed anger among pro-Taliban
tribesmen in the area bordering Afghanistan after carrying out an
air
strike on a religious school at the end of October that killed about
80 suspected fighters.
Days later, a suicide attacker detonated a bomb among army recruits
on
a training ground in a nearby northwestern town, killing 42 of them.
It was the bloodiest-ever strike on Pakistani security forces.
A blast in a passenger van in the eastern city of Lahore later on
Friday killed one person and wounded seven, police said.
Four of the wounded were in a serious condition.
There have been more than half a dozen bombs in Peshawar in recent
weeks, including one that killed six people and wounded more than 30
in a crowded market on October 20.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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