A suicide bomber blew himself up targeting a senior security forces official near the US consulate in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 12 people and injuring 25 others, officials said.
The attacker, who was on a motorcycle, detonated his explosive vest when the convoy of Frontier Constabulary commandant Abdul Majeed Khan Marwat slowed down near a check post in Sadar area within Peshawar cantonment. Marwat remained safe though his vehicle was damaged.
Six persons, including two women, were killed instantly while six others succumbed to their injuries in lady Reading Hospital, officials said. Two security personnel were among the dead.