Suicide Bomber Attacks Police Station In Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a suicide bomber has detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station’s main gate in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 22 security forces and wounding 32 others, and causing a part of the building to collapse upon impact. A local police officer says three attackers were also killed in the shootout between militants and security forces. Tuesday’s attack, one of the deadliest in months, happened in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The province is a former stronghold of the militant Pakistani Taliban group, or TTP. The newly formed militant group Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, believed to be an offshoot of the TTP, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement.