Pakistan 'suicide bomber' targets police station

[Rhiannon12866]

Source: BBC News

A suspected suicide car bombing in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 14 people, police say.

The explosion took place at a police station in the town of Lakki Marwat in the Khyber region south of Peshawar.

There are reports that police officers are among the casualties.

Nearly 100 people were killed in suicide bomb attacks on Shia Muslim processions in the cities of Lahore and Quetta last week. The attacks ended a lull in violence during severe floods.

A police official in Lakki Marwat said a car bomb was driven into the police station.

"A suicide attacker drove his bomb-laden vehicle into the back of the police post," Gul Wali Khan told the AFP news agency.




Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11195797

[Rhiannon12866]

1. More: Suicide car bomber kills 14 in northwest Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 14 people were killed and 34 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police post in northwest Pakistan on Monday, police said.

"There were nine policemen among the dead," senior police official Iftikhar Ahmad told AFP by telephone after the attack on Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, not far from tribal areas that are a stronghold of the Taliban.

Shahid Hameed, a spokesman for the Lakki Marwat police, also confirmed the death toll. Police said 20 policemen were among the injured.

Police said the blast destroyed the police station building and damaged a nearby administrative building.

A doctor in Lakki Marwat's main hospital said eight bodies and 13 wounded had been taken to his hospital, which was also damaged.

"There are six policeman among the dead. The other two bodies are beyond recognition," doctor Abdul Majid Marwat told AFP.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the bombing but the Pakistani Taliban has been blamed for similar attacks.

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3. BBC: Children die as Pakistan suicide bomber targets police

September 6 2010 Last updated at 12:09 GMT

Four school children are among 19 people killed in a suicide car bombing in north-west Pakistan.

The attacker rammed a pickup into a police station in Lakki Marwat town, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Books and a school bag could be seen in the wreckage. Reports say the dead included 11 police officers.

More than 100 people died in attacks on Shia Muslims last week. The Pakistani Taliban says they carried out the attacks

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[Rhiannon12866]

6. Thanks for the update...

As if not enough people, especially children, weren't already dying in the overwhelming natural disaster here... :(

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Jesus. It sounds like the Taliban has the same stupid ideas that the US does...

...in regards to winning the "hearts and minds" of the people.:eyes:

[Rhiannon12866]

7. And here I thought that this was why we were in Afghanistan...

To defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda... :shrug: x(

[cosmicone]

5. ISI's chickens coming home to roost ... n/t