Pak suicide car bomber kills nine
Peshawar: At least nine people, including four policemen, were killed and 30 others injured on Thursday when a suicide car bomber targeted a security vehicle in Pakistan's restive northwestern Hangu city.
The attacker, who was in an explosives-laden pick-up truck, blew himself up as a police van passed by, officials said.
Four policemen, who were in the van, were killed, district administration chief Adil Siddiq told the media.
Other officials said five civilians were also killed. Twelve women and children were among the 30 injured.
Siddiq described the condition of three of the injured as serious. All the injured had been rushed to a nearby state-run hospital after the blast.
The blast, in which police officials said 600 kg of explosives were used, also hit several nearby vehicles and 15 houses.
The explosion, for which no group claimed responsibility, left behind a 12-foot-wide crater.
The blast came a day after a woman was killed and three others injured near Doaba town in Hangu district when an explosive device planted along the road went off as the van they were travelling in passed by.
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