Three Killed by Suicide Attack in NW Pakistan
'Pakistan Times' NWFP Bureau

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Three persons including the attacker were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police chowki in Dera Ismail Khan city of NWFP province here on Monday.

Seven people including two policemen were also injured in the attack at the police checkpost near Liaqat Park in Dera Ismail Khan in North West Frontier Province, police officer Aslam Khattak said.

According to police sources, police had set up a roadblock at the end of a street to frisk anyone entering the area but the bomber refused to be searched and detonated explosives strapped to his body, which killed three persons including attacker and police officer.

An earlier report had sais that a blast occurred in a street adjacent to Liaquat Park here injuring two police officials and civilian.

Police officials have cordoned off the area.

The blood and body remains littered on blast scene indicates some death also.

Six Nabbed

Meanwhile, Police and intelligence agencies have arrested Monday six operatives of a gang of suicide attackers and recovered belts of explosives from them.

Credible sources say, police and intelligence agencies conducted a raid in Nawab Zafar Abbas Colony here and arrested six persons. Belts of explosives have also been recovered from them.

The arrested men are believed to belong to Baitullah Mehsood group of local Taliban based in South Waziristan.

The videos showing Taliban activities are stated to be found out from the arrested persons. The arrested people were shifted to some unidentified location by helicopter this morning.

According to government sources, the gang of arrested men had planned suicide attacks in Dera Ismail Khan during Muharram-ul-Haram.

Rockets hit Bannu

And a report from Bannu says that as many as 11 people injured when miscreants fired two rockets near an Imam Bargah in Bannu district of NWFP province, reports said on Monday

The rockets landed in a house near an Imam Bargah 'Hussainia' in Hussainabad area of the district, where worshippers were arriving to observe the religious festival of Ashoura, police sources informed.

Dozens of people were inside the mosque at the time. Two of the wounded were in serious condition, police said.

It is not immediately clear who fired the rockets or from where.

The injured were rushed to district hospital, Bannu.●