Pakistan: three killed and two Americans wounded in Peshawar suicide attack
Two Americans working for the US consulate in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar were wounded in a bomb attack on Monday, which killed at least three other people and left a six-foot crater in a road close to United Nations offices.
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Rob Crilly in Islamabad and Ashfaq Yusufzai in Peshawar
3:20PM BST 03 Sep 2012
A SUICIDE car bomber attacked an American consulate vehicle in Pakistan on Monday, killing three people in one of the deadliest recent attacks on US interests in the country.
US officials said two Americans and two Pakistani workers were injured but contradicted a regional Pakistani minister who had earlier claimed that two Americans died.
No-one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack in the north-western city of Peshawar which injured 19 people in all and left a six-foot crater in the road.
Witnesses said a car packed with explosives rammed into a 4x4 vehicle as it emerged from the American consulate, close to United Nations offices.
TV footage showed a 4x4 at the site which had been reduced to a carcase of twisted, charred metal. Americans have frequently been targeted in the city which stands close to the Afghan border and on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal areas.
Two Americans working for the US consulate in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar were wounded in a bomb attack on Monday, which killed at least three other people and left a six-foot crater in a road close to United Nations offices.
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Rob Crilly in Islamabad and Ashfaq Yusufzai in Peshawar
3:20PM BST 03 Sep 2012
A SUICIDE car bomber attacked an American consulate vehicle in Pakistan on Monday, killing three people in one of the deadliest recent attacks on US interests in the country.
US officials said two Americans and two Pakistani workers were injured but contradicted a regional Pakistani minister who had earlier claimed that two Americans died.
No-one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack in the north-western city of Peshawar which injured 19 people in all and left a six-foot crater in the road.
Witnesses said a car packed with explosives rammed into a 4x4 vehicle as it emerged from the American consulate, close to United Nations offices.
TV footage showed a 4x4 at the site which had been reduced to a carcase of twisted, charred metal. Americans have frequently been targeted in the city which stands close to the Afghan border and on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal areas.
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