Suicide blast kills 7 in Pakistan
A female suicide attacker and a handcart bomb targeted Pakistani police yesterday, killing seven people in the first deadly attacks to hit the northwest during Ramadan, officials said.
The city of Peshawar, where the bombs struck, is on the frontline of a Taliban insurgency that Washington calls the global headquarters of al-Qaeda.
It was only the third time police have confirmed a woman suicide attacker in the nuclear-armed country of 167 million where Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked bombers have killed 4,500 people since 2007, destabilising the government.
Dozens were wounded in yesterday's attacks, carried out several hours apart in the Lahori Gate area of Peshawar.
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