Suicide attack kills 10 in Pakistan's Peshawar

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people were killed in a suicide attack on a police post in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, police said.

City Police Chief Liaquat Ali Khan said that 20 others were also injured in the attack at a police check post.

Security force members guard a destroyed car after a blast in Peshawar,  Pakistan, Nov. 14, 2009. A suicide car bomb attacked a security check  point on road to downtown Peshawar Saturday and killed at least 5 people  and wounded 25 others. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

Khan said that the police on suspicion stopped the car at the check post but the bomber exploded his device when the police started search. He said the bomber wanted to take the bomb to other place but the police foiled the attempt and saved the city from a major disaster.

District Coordination Officer Sahibzada Anis said the bomber came in the car from the nearby tribal region of Bara and detonated his bomb at Pishtakhara, an entry point to the city and a busy locality in the outskirts.

Doctors said that two children and two policemen were among those killed.

Anis official said that the injured were shifted to three hospitals in the city.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the government blames such attacks on Taliban militants.

Ambulances from the government-run hospitals and private relief agencies rushed to the site and shifted the injured to hospitals.