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A suicide car-bomber killed seven people and wounded 26 in an attack on a police station in Pakistan's northwest on Sunday, police said.
Police sources said Sunday's attack targeted a police station in response to military operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
On Sunday, the bomber drove a van into a roadblock outside a police station in Kohat town.
"Seven people including a child were killed and 26 people wounded, five of them policemen," a top police official, Abdullah Khan, told Reuters.
Another police official said five policemen were among the dead.
There was no claim of responsibility.
After its offensives in Swat, South Waziristan and Bajaur, The Pakistani military stepped up US-backed offensive against Taliban-allied fighters in Orakzai late last month.
About 13 fighters were killed in clashes in the Orakzai region on Sunday, security officials said.
Many Pakistanis forced from their homes stay with family members who support them.
It has also forced 200,000 people to flee their homes in recent months, the United Nations says. A total of about 1.3 million had already been displaced.
PHOTO CAPTION
Pakistani relatives carry an injured blast victim to an ambulance following a bomb attack in Kohat on April 17.
Agencies
