(AKI) - A suicide car bomber has killed seven people in the northwestern Pakistani town of Bannu. Police chief Mohammed Alam Shinwari said the attacker rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police car patrolling the town's streets on Friday. Shinwari said four police officers and three civilians died and several other people were wounded in the attack.
Immediately after the incident police and security forces cordoned off the area around the site of the attack and launched an investigation.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani strongly condemned the blast in Bannu in which some policemen lost their lives. Zardari said that the government was determined to deal with the scourge of terrorism and extremism with an iron hand and that those responsible for acts of terrorism would not escape the law.