ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Two near-simultaneous bombings Thursday in the northwest killed 15 police officers and others, the second such attack in Pakistan in as many days, police said.
Thursday's attacks occurred outside a police compound in Bannu town in the violence-ravaged North-West Frontier province of Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.
Dawn newspaper, quoting police, reported 25 others were wounded in the attacks. Among the 15 killed, seven were police officers.
Senior police official Iqbal Marwat, who was among the injured, was reported in serious condition, Dawn said.
Police told the newspaper the first attack occurred during a police roll call and as rescue teams rushed to the scene, the second explosion went off. It was not clear whether the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers.
"It will be premature to say whether it was a suicide attack," an official source told Dawn.
The BBC quoted a police official the first attack occurred outside the main gate of the police compound.
On Wednesday, 19 security personnel and civilians died in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's Khyber region near the Afghan border.
The latest attacks come amid reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has died of wounds he suffered in a Jan. 14 drone missile attack.
