19 November 2009 - 20H57  

Bomb attack targets Pakistan police: official
Pakistani army troops patrol at the site following a suicide bomb blast in Peshawar. A bomb attack targeted a Pakistan police vehicle in a densely populated area of the northwestern city of Peshawar early Friday, a senior police official said.
Pakistani army troops patrol at the site following a suicide bomb blast in Peshawar. A bomb attack targeted a Pakistan police vehicle in a densely populated area of the northwestern city of Peshawar early Friday, a senior police official said.

AFP - A bomb attack targeted a Pakistan police vehicle in a densely populated area of the northwestern city of Peshawar early Friday, a senior police official said.

"It was a bomb attack on a police patrol van," city police chief Liaquat Ali Khan told reporters.

There was no immediate information on casualties.

A huge explosion ripped through downtown Peshawar after midnight (1900 GMT Wednesday), an AFP correspondent said.

Close