Suicide car bomb kills 3 in Pakistan

A suicide car bomber has attacked a police station in Karak, northwest Pakistan. The blast killed three people and wounded more than twenty.

The attack toppled a mosque next to the police station. Both police and civilians are among the wounded. The injured were transported to a nearby hospital, where some remain in a critical condition.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the blasts. Karak is near South Waziristan, a known militant stronghold. The Pakistani army launched a major offensive against militants there in October.

Meanwhile, at least one person died and several others were wounded when gunmen opened fire on a procession in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan.

Security officials stand near damaged vehicles at the site of a suicide bomb attack on a police station in Karak, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, February 27, 2010. REUTERS/Ihsan Khattak