Bomb targeting police kills 11 in northwest Pakistan

At least nine people were killed and 35 injured in the rush-hour blast.

At least five people were killed and several people were injured on Tuesday morning when a bomb exploded close to a security check-post near Karkhano Market area in Peshawar, reported by private TV channel.

Toheed Zulfiqar, a public relations officer at the Hayatabad complex, said the dead included a seven-year-old, and six of the injured were in serious condition. Afridi was former president of the Tribal Union of Journalists and was now leading the Khyber Union of Journalists.

The bomber rammed his motorcycle into a police vehicle next to the roadside checkpoint in the Jamrud area on the edge of Pakistan’s volatile Federally Administered Tribal Areas, local government official Munir Khan told Reuters. Ismatullah amended the hospital’s death toll to 10, adding that he expected the casualties to rise.

“Although the exact nature of the blast is being ascertained, it appears to be a suicide attack”, said political agent Khyber Agency Shahab Ali Shah.

Khyber is part of Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border.