Motorcycle Suicide Attack Hits Major Pakistan Highway, Killing 10
A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle hit a roadside checkpoint on a major highway in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 10 people and injuring 42 others, according to local officials.
A child was among those who died when the attacker riding "an explosives-laden motorcycle" struck the checkpoint on the Torkham-Jalalabad Highway linking Pakistan to Afghanistan, said Saiful Islam, a senior official in the semi-autonomous tribal government of the region.
Islam said a local security official, Nawab Shah, who was passing through the area some three miles from the provincial capital city of Peshawar, appeared to have been the target.
The highway was closed after the 9 a.m. bombing, blocking trucks carrying supplies to NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
A child was among those who died when the attacker riding "an explosives-laden motorcycle" struck the checkpoint on the Torkham-Jalalabad Highway linking Pakistan to Afghanistan, said Saiful Islam, a senior official in the semi-autonomous tribal government of the region.
Islam said a local security official, Nawab Shah, who was passing through the area some three miles from the provincial capital city of Peshawar, appeared to have been the target.
The highway was closed after the 9 a.m. bombing, blocking trucks carrying supplies to NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
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