PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber killed three people outside a popular media club on Tuesday in Peshawar, officials said, a key northwestern Pakistan town that has become the epicenter of Islamabad’s battle against militants.
Another 17 were wounded in Tuesday’s bombing outside the Peshawar Press Club.
“It was a suicide attack. The bomber wanted to get into the Press Club and, when our police guard stopped him, he blew himself up,” city police chief Liaqat Ali Khan told Reuters.
Two policemen and a passer-by were killed, a Peshawar city official said. At least one of the dead lay near a gate into the red-brick club, television pictures showed, and broken glass littered the ground after the blast smashed the club’s windows.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the Pakistani Taleban were being defeated. “I can tell you with full confidence that we have broken the militants’ back and we’ll eliminate them,” Malik said.
