At least 15 people were killed in northwest Pakistan Saturday in three powerful bomb blasts, police said.
Six people died when a police station in the Bannu district of North West Frontier Province was targeted by a suicide car bomb, police said.
The suicide bomber was in a truck packed with an estimated 160 kg (353 pounds) of explosives, police said. Among the 55 people injured were 28 policemen and 27 civilians. Dozens of nearby shops and buildings were destroyed.
Police arrested a suspect near the Maidan police station.
Another eight people were killed five hours later in the provincial capital of Peshawar after a bomb exploded in the central business district, according to government official Sahibzada Anis Khan.
The blast occurred near a state-owned bank and a military hospital in Peshawar's Saddar market. Police arrested two suspects at the scene but did not say how they were connected to the lethal attack. read more
