Car bomb kills at least three in NW Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, April 25 (Reuters) - A car bomb outside a police station killed at least three people and wounded 15 in Mardan town in northwest Pakistan on Friday, a senior police officer said.
"The car was parked outside the police station. It was packed with explosives and blew up, damaging the station and several nearby shops in the bazaar," senior officer Tahir Khan said.
The blast broke a lull in Islamist militant attacks on security forces that had held since a new government came to power at the end of March. The new government, made up of coalition partners opposed to President Pervez Musharraf, has pledged to try to use negotiations to halt the violence that has claimed well over a 1,000 lives since mid-2007.
(Rreporting by Zeeshan Haider; Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore) (For a Reuters blog on Pakistan please see: blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/)
"The car was parked outside the police station. It was packed with explosives and blew up, damaging the station and several nearby shops in the bazaar," senior officer Tahir Khan said.
The blast broke a lull in Islamist militant attacks on security forces that had held since a new government came to power at the end of March. The new government, made up of coalition partners opposed to President Pervez Musharraf, has pledged to try to use negotiations to halt the violence that has claimed well over a 1,000 lives since mid-2007.
(Rreporting by Zeeshan Haider; Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore) (For a Reuters blog on Pakistan please see: blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/)
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