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Pakistan: 'Two Americans dead' in Peshawar suicide attack Pakistan: Three die in bombing near US consulate in Peshawar
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Two Americans have died in a suicide bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, the provincial information minister has said. At least three people have died in a suicide bombing that hit a vehicle that left the US consulate in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar.
The bomber is said to have rammed an explosives-filled car into a vehicle which had left the US consulate. US officials in Pakistan said no one from their Peshawar consulate was killed, but they were investigating whether any US citizens had died.
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. Earlier the provincial information minister said two Americans were dead.
Peshawar is situated near tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. At least 19 people were injured when the bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the four-wheel-drive vehicle.
Peshawar is situated near volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
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.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.
Monday's blast apparently took place after the vehicle had left the US consulate, police said. Monday's blast took place after the vehicle had left the US consulate, police said.
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.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. Provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told AFP that the attack was a bid to "to terrorise the foreigners".
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.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. But staff at the US embassy in Islamabad denied any Americans associated with the consulate were dead.
Militants in Pakistan, and many Pakistanis, are angry at US involvement in the war in Afghanistan and US drone attacks which have left hundreds dead, mainly in the volatile border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.