Security force members guard a destroyed car after a blast in Peshawar, Pakistan, Nov. 14, 2009. A suicide car bomb attacked a security check point on road to downtown Peshawar Saturday and killed at least 5 people and wounded 25 others. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum) Photo Gallery>>>

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people were killed in a suicide attack on a police post in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, police said.

    City Police Chief Liaquat Ali Khan said that 20 others were also injured in the attack at a police check post.

    Khan said that the police on suspicion stopped the car at the check post but the bomber exploded his device when the police started search. He said the bomber wanted to take the bomb to other place but the police foiled the attempt and saved the city from a major disaster.

The photo taken on Nov. 14, 2009 shows a destroyed car after a blast in Peshawar, Pakistan. A suicide car bomb attacked a security check point on road to downtown Peshawar Saturday and killed at least 5 people dead and wounded 25 others.(Xinhua/Umar Qayyum) Photo Gallery>>>

    District Coordination Officer Sahibzada Anis said the bomber came in the car from the nearby tribal region of Bara and detonated his bomb at Pishtakhara, an entry point to the city and a busy locality in the outskirts.

    Doctors said that two children and two policemen were among those killed.

    Anis official said that the injured were shifted to three hospitals in the city.

The photo taken on Nov. 14, 2009 shows a destroyed car after a blast in Peshawar, Pakistan. A suicide car bomb attacked a security check point on road to downtown Peshawar Saturday and killed at least 5 people dead and wounded 25 others. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum) Photo Gallery>>>

    No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the government blames such attacks on Taliban militants.

    Ambulances from the government-run hospitals and private relief agencies rushed to the site and shifted the injured to hospitals.

    The attack damaged several vehicles in the square and people said that the explosion was heard in the whole city.

    A witness said that it was darkness in the blast site and he saw injured people and police men lying in the square.

    Experts from the bomb disposal squad said that about 50 kg of explosives were used in the blast.

    It was the sixth attack in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, in a week, which has killed around 70 people, according to police figures.

    Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Peshawar. They said the government will speed up efforts to wipe out extremists and terrorists from the country.

    Suicide attacks and bomb blasts have increased in Pakistan, particularly in the northwest, after the security forces have launched major operation against the militants in South Waziristan tribal region last month.

    The army said on Saturday that seven more militants have been killed in the ongoing operation in South Waziristan.

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