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 KOHAT: At least 21 people including women and children were killed, and more than 50 wounded on Tuesday in a car bomb attack targeting a police headquarter in Kohat.Six policemen were among the dead in this latest blast, and police said the other victims were women and children who were breaking their fast in the garrison city, close to the lawless tribal areas of Khyber and Orakzai. "It was a car bomb blast, we are investigating whether the car was parked or was exploded by a suicide bomber," Kohat commissioner Khalid Khan told SAMAA. A residential police complex was severely damaged and houses nearby also collapsed in the sheer force of the explosion, trapping people in the rubble. Rescue workers faced difficulties as electricity was suspended after the blast. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban have been blamed for similar bombings. The Taliban said earlier Tuesday that they would continue to target security forces after they claimed responsibility for Monday's attack in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which killed 19 people including nine policemen. "We are targeting security forces because the government has allowed America to launch drone attacks on us," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told a foreign news agency via telephone. On Friday, a suicide bomber killed at least 59 people at an Al Quds rally in Quetta. | |