Suicide blast hits Pakistan's main spy agency

Fri Nov 13 2009 12:47:43

A suicide car bomber has attacked Pakistan's spy agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar, tearing down much of the building.

At least seven people have been killed in the attack and around 35 have been wounded.

The blast struck at the heart of the agency overseeing much of the anti-terror campaign in the nearby border regions with Afghanistan.

It was the latest in a string of bloody attacks since the government launched an offensive in mid-October against a main Taliban stronghold in the border region of South Waziristan.

Officials said that just over an hour later, a suicide car bomber attacked a police station in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least six people.

Another 27 people were wounded in Friday's attack, which took place in Bakkakhel village in the Bannu tribal area.

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