PESHAWAR: A female suicide attacker and a handcart bomb targeted police on Thursday, killing seven people in the first deadly attacks to hit the city after two months.At least 37 others were wounded in Thursday's attacks, carried out several hours apart in the Lahori Gate area targeting first a police van and secondly a police checkpost.
"This was a female suicide bomber aged around 17 or 18 who threw a hand grenade on the police checkpost, 20 metres away from the site of the first blast, and then blew herself up," a police official said.
"Her vest did not explode completely. She was killed and another woman was also killed," he said.
"The other woman is more than 60 years old. Her face is completely disfigured and beyond identification. Her body has no sign of wearing a suicide vest. We feel that she was just a passer-by," a hospital spokesman said.
He said 16 people were admitted with injuries after the second blast, including a 10-year-old boy.
Police official confirmed that the other woman was a passer by and had no connection to the woman, believed to have been around 17 years old.
Police said five officers and a child were killed earlier when a bomb hidden in a handcart on the roadside, tore through a passing police van carrying 20 personnel at 7:10 am.
Twenty-one other people were wounded in the attack.
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