Suicide blast strikes Peshawar again
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Saturday, 14, Nov 2009 05:36
By Matthew Champion
The Pakistani city of Peshawar was mourning victims of a suicide blast for the second straight day after a bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint this afternoon.
At least 11 people, including three women and three children, died when the driver of a black car detonated his explosives when he was questioned by police officers, two of whom died in the blast.
A further 26 others were injured in the attack, al-Jazeera said.
The blast is the latest in a series of attacks across Pakistan's north-west that have killed more than 300 civilians and soldiers.
No one has claimed responsibility for today's attack, which comes as the government's resolve is tested over a continuing military offensive in South Waziristan, a Taliban stronghold.
Yesterday two other suicide blasts, one of which was in Peshawar, killed 17 people in Pakistan.
An attack on Pakistan's main intelligence agency in the city of Peshawar killed at least 12 and wounded 40, officials said. The blast destroyed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, reporters in the area said.
The second attack killed another five people at a police station in Baka Khel, close to the tribal region of North Waziristan.