Bomb blasts hit northwest Pakistan, 1 killed

Multiple bomb blasts shook Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province today, killing at least one policeman and injuring nearly a dozen people.
Officials said a police van was targeted with a roadside bomb in Mandi area. A policeman was killed and two more were injured.
Earlier, an attack by a suspected suicide bomber in Bannu wounded four paramilitary Frontier Corps personnel and two passers-by, media reports said.
Officials said the suspected bomber rammed his motorcycle into a security forces vehicle. Security forces cordoned off the area and conducted a search operation.
Another bomb attack on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Peshawar injured three persons.

Bomb disposal squad officials said an estimated five kilograms of explosives concealed in a cylinder went off near a police van on Kohat Road. The van was destroyed and two policemen and a woman were injured.
Rescue teams took the wounded to hospital while security forces cordoned off the area and conducted a search.
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.