Suicide Attack Injures At Least 8 in NW Pakistan

Local Editor

A suicide bomb attack outside a government office in northwest Pakistan Tuesday injured at least eight people, two of whom were in critical condition, officials said.

The attack took place at the Excise and Taxation office in Mardan, about 50 kilometers northeast of the region’s main city of Peshawar.

Shahid Khan, a senior local police official, said: "It was a suicide attack, the target was the office of Excise and Taxation."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team