Six policeman, one child killed in Charsadda blast
Insurgents have stepped up attacks across Pakistan in the last few days.
PESHAWAR (AP) - A Pakistani police officer says a bomb rigged to a bicycle has hit a police patrol on its way to guard a polio vaccination team, killing six policemen and a boy.
The officer, Shafiullah Khan, says the bombing took place on Wednesday morning in the Charsadda district in the country s northwest.
The bomb, which was set off by remote control, struck close to a busy market in Sardheri area. The blast also wounded 11 people.
The killed boy was just a bystander.
The bombing came just hours after a car bomb hit a bus carrying pilgrims in a restive region of southwest Pakistan, killing 28.
And on Tuesday, three health workers were killed in an attack on a polio vaccination team in southern city of Karachi.
Earlier, a suicide attack on Monday in a market next to Pakistan s military headquarters killed 13 people including eight soldiers and three children.
And on Sunday, a vehicle-borne suicide bomb in the restive northwestern city of Bannu killed 26 people, the deadliest attack on Pakistan s military in several years.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has waged a bloody campaign against the state in recent years, carrying out a number of bomb and gun attacks.
