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Pakistan attack: Bomb kills 17 in Peshawar | Pakistan attack: Bomb kills 17 in Peshawar |
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At least 17 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb attack targeting the security forces in north-west Pakistan. | |
Hospital officials have told the BBC four children were amongst those killed in the attack near Peshawar. | |
The bomb was placed inside a car parked on the side of the road in a busy market area just south of the city. | |
The attack came during a visit to Pakistan by the British Prime Minister David Cameron. | |
The target was a convoy of troops, but all those reported to have been killed were civilians. | |
The explosion was followed by an exchange of fire between Frontier Corps - paramilitary soldiers - and the armed assailants, reported Pakistani newspaper the Express Tribune. | |
The BBC's Richard Galpin, in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, says this was just the latest in a spate of attacks which has left 60 people dead in the past two weeks. | |
He add that it is unclear who carried out the bombing, but the Pakistan Taliban has often targeted the security forces in the past. | |
Tackling extremist violence was high on the agenda during Mr Cameron's talks with the Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad. | |
Peshawar is on the edge of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region - the main militant haven from which attacks are often launched. | Peshawar is on the edge of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region - the main militant haven from which attacks are often launched. |
It has been hit by dozens of bombings and killings over recent years. | It has been hit by dozens of bombings and killings over recent years. |
Last Monday, a senior police and his driver were shot dead in the city. Three days earlier, a suicide bomb attack on a neighbourhood populated by some of the city's minority Shia Muslims killed 15. | Last Monday, a senior police and his driver were shot dead in the city. Three days earlier, a suicide bomb attack on a neighbourhood populated by some of the city's minority Shia Muslims killed 15. |