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Suicide Bomber Kills 5 at Pakistani Police Station

   VOA News  March 24, 2011

   Police  in  northwestern  Pakistan  say  a  suicide  bomber has struck
   outside a police station, killing at least five people and wounding 25
   others.
   Authorities said the blast Thursday killed one police officer and four
   civilians in Pakistan's Hangu district, near the Afghan border.
   The explosion destroyed part of the police station and damaged several
   surrounding houses.
   No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
   On  Wednesday,  police said rocket attacks and bomb blasts killed five
   people in parts of western Pakistan.
   Authorities  said  three  rockets  hit  different parts of Quetta, the
   capital  of southwestern Baluchistan province, killing four people and
   wounding at least 15 others.  A police officer was among the dead.
   It is unclear who was behind the attacks, but Baluchistan has been the
   scene  of  a  separatist  insurgency,  sectarian violence, and Taliban
   attacks.
   In   northwestern  Khyber  Pakhtunkhwa  province,  officials  say  two
   roadside  bombs  killed  a  man near the provincial capital, Peshawar,
   while  the second bomb targeted a police patrol, wounding at least six
   police officers.
   Hours earlier, in Bolan district east of Quetta, gunmen on motorcycles
   attacked   three   NATO  oil  tankers  carrying  fuel  for  troops  in
   neighboring  Afghanistan  and  set  them  ablaze  before  fleeing  the
   scene.  There are no reports of casualties.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP.

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