Explosions kill several in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Separate bombings Friday in Pakistan's violence-ravaged Peshawar and in Bannu district killed several people and injured dozens more, authorities said.

In Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province and the target of numerous deadly terror attacks lately, a suicide car bomber attacked Pakistan's security offices, killing at least 10 people and wounding about 30, Geo News reported.

The BBC reported the blast destroyed the building of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Those killed included security officials, it said.

People also were trapped under the rubble, the BBC report said.

In the other attack in Bakka Khel in Bannu district southwest of Peshawar, a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a police station, killing at least seven people including five policemen, Geo News reported quoting police official Muhammad Iqbal.

The police building, near the border with the tribal areas, was destroyed in the bombing, the report said.

Several Pakistani cities, particularly Peshawar, have suffered a wave of terror attacks lately in which more than 300 have died, mostly civilians. In the worst attack on Peshawar in recent years, more than 100 died, mostly women and children, in a car bomb explosion is a busy market area last month.

The Pakistani military has been waging a major operation against the Taliban, al-Qaida and other terror groups since Oct. 17 in the lawless South Waziristan tribal region.