PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 7 (UPI) -- Seven people, including five police personnel, were killed by a car bomb Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.
In addition to the police officers, the dead included two Frontier Corps paramilitary soldiers and a civilian. Officials said the victims were lured to the scene by a call saying there was a dead body inside a white car parked outside Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, CNN reported.
In a separate incident, a military convoy in the northwestern Pakistan town of Darra Adam Khel was struck by a roadside bomb, killing three civilians and wounding four troops, government official Asif Khan told Dawn, Pakistan's English-language newspaper.
While al-Qaida, Taliban and other militants have long staged attacks against government security forces along Pakistan's northwester border with Afghanistan, it is believed Saturday's incident near Peshawar was the first to use a dead body as a lure, Dawn reported.
"Police went there. They found the white car. They also saw a body inside, but when they were pulling it out, the car bomb went off,' Khan told the newspaper, calling the set-up "a new technique."
