Police: Suicide attack kills 7 in NW Pakistan

[November 14, 2009]  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Police say a suicide car bombing targeting a security force checkpoint has killed seven people in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Government official Sahibzada Muhammad Anis says the suicide bomber blew up the explosive-laden car on Saturday when police wanted to search it at the checkpoint on the outskirts of the city.

Anis says 25 other people were injured.

A massive truck bombing at the regional headquarters of Pakistan's top intelligence agency killed 10 people in the city on Friday.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Police say a car bomb targeting a security force checkpoint has killed seven people in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Police official Irfanullah Khan says the explosive-laden car hit the police checkpoint on the outskirts of the city on Saturday.

Khan says the dead included some police officers.

A massive truck bombing at the regional headquarters of Pakistan's top intelligence agency killed 10 people in the city on Friday.

[Associated Press]

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