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Pakistan: Deaths in blast near US Peshawar consulate Pakistan: 'Two Americans dead' in Peshawar suicide attack
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An explosion near the US consulate in the city of Peshawar, north-west Pakistan, has killed at least two people, officials say. Two Americans have died in a suicide bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, the provincial information minister has said.
A policeman told AP that an explosives-filled car rammed a US government vehicle after it left the consulate. Five people were injured. The bomber is said to have rammed an explosives-filled car into a vehicle which had left the US consulate.
The area hosts several foreign organisations, including the UN. A number of people were injured in the attack, which minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain described as a bid to "to terrorise the foreigners", AFP reports.
Peshawar is situated near tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, where Taliban and al-Qaeda militants operate. Peshawar is situated near tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Some of those wounded in Monday's explosion were foreign nationals, police officer Pervez Khan told the Associated Press. Taliban and al-Qaeda militants operate in the area and the city has been targeted frequently in bombings in recent years - though US officials are said to be protected by extensive security measures.
It happened near a building occupied by a United Nations agency, police said. Witnesses said a four-wheel-drive vehicle was completely destroyed. Monday's blast apparently took place after the vehicle had left the US consulate, police said.
Peshawar has been targeted in frequent bombings in recent years. On Friday at least 11 people died in a car bombing in the Mattani district. A witness told BBC the car in which the explosives were planted rammed into a four-wheel-drive vehicle in Aabdara Road area - close to the offices of the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, and a registration centre for Afghan refugees.
"The dead and injured are from the US consulate. It was a suicide attack. The suicide bomber targeted [a] US vehicle," Mr Hussain told AFP.
A local journalist who saw a US passport inside the targeted four-wheel-drive said it carried the stamp of the US Consulate and was in the name of an apparent employee of the consulate.
On Friday at least 11 people died in a car bombing in the Mattani district.