Two people were killed and 23 others wounded on Wednesday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said.
The attack came in early in the morning in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is rife with Taliban and al-Qaeda-led militancy.
“Two people including one woman and a policeman have been killed in the suicide attack near Domail police station in Bannu,” local police chief Abdul Ghafoor Afridi said.
A doctor at the government hospital said they received 23 people with injuries from the blast site.
“Out of them two were critical and have been sent to the military hospital,” doctor Sher Afzal said.
“Among the injured, there were two women, three children aged between two to five years and five policemen,” Afzal said.