Seven Dead In Pakistan Suicide Blast: Officials

From AFP:

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — A teenaged suicide bomber attacked police in northwest Pakistan on Sunday as they investigated an earlier blast, killing seven people and wounding 28 others, officials said.

The attack took place on a busy road in the town of Dera Ismail Khan near the border with Afghanistan, where police were called to the scene of a minor grenade explosion, district coordination officer Syed Mohsin Shah told AFP.

Five police and two civilians were killed in the suicide attack, Shah said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, the latest in a wave of suicide and other attacks across Pakistan that have left more than 1,500 people dead in the past 18 months.

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