Bomb kills five in Pakistan's Peshawar
A planted bomb targeting a police van in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar killed four policemen and a child on Thursday, officials said.
"At least four policemen and a schoolchild have been killed in the attack," said Muhammad Faisal, a senior police official in the area.
He said that 18 other policemen are injured.
Local police officials said that the improvised explosive device was hidden in a handcart parked at the roadside near the Lahori Gate area.
"The police van was carrying 20 policemen," said Imtiaz Shah, another police official, adding the vehicle was wrecked in the blast and a group of schoolboys were at the site when the bomb exploded.
"A 12-year-old boy has also been killed in the incident," he said.
Northwest Pakistan suffers from chronic insecurity, largely connected to the semi-autonomous tribal belt near Afghanistan, which Washington calls the most dangerous place on Earth and a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda.
More than 4,500 people have been killed in suicide attacks and bomb explosions, many of them carried out by the Taliban and other Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist extremists, in Pakistan during the last four years.
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