A SUICIDE BOMBER HAS KILLED at least four people after targeting a police van in Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan.
Three police officers and one civilian passer-by were killed in the explosion and at least 11 other people were injured, the AFP reports.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Police say that the suicide bomber appears to have been a teenage boy who was carrying several kilos of explosives.
The Taliban group had already declared its intention to focus on police and security personnel in its attacks, it said.
Thousands of people have died in violence in northern Pakistan since Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters fled to the region from Afghanistaion following the US invasion in 2001, Al Jazeera reports.
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