*Source: AFP / DTN News
(NSI News Source Info) PESHAWAR, Pakistan - June 12, 2009: Two people were killed and 13 others including police were injured Thursday in a grenade and suicide bomb attack targeting security forces in Peshawar, police said. 
Pakistani police officers collect evidence at the scene after a blast at a check point on the outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, June 11, 2009. Police in Pakistan say assailants attacked a checkpoint using a grenade. When more police rushed to the scene a suicide bomber ran forward and blew himself up police said.
The attack happened after dark in a northern suburb of Peshawar, a northwestern city still reeling from a commando-style suicide bombing blamed on Taliban militants on a luxury hotel Tuesday, which killed at least nine people.
Senior Peshawar police officer Mohammad Ejaz said that an attacker threw a hand grenade at a police van near a checkpoint.
‘When police gathered a suicide bomber blew himself up. One civilian was killed. Fourteen people were injured, eight of them policemen,’ he said.
Doctor Mohammad Shahid of Peshawar's main Lady Reading hospital said later that one of the injured had also died. 
An attacker threw a hand grenade at a police van near a checkpoint and when police gathered a suicide bomber blew himself up.—AP/File Photo
‘One person died in the hospital —he was a civilian —and three are still in a critical condition, including two policemen,’ he told AFP.
Another local police officer, Mohammad Nisar, said body parts of the suicide attacker had been recovered and sent to a hospital.
Pakistani police officers collect evidence at the scene after a blast at a check point on the outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, June 11, 2009. Police in Pakistan say assailants attacked a checkpoint using a grenade. When more police rushed to the scene a suicide bomber ran forward and blew himself up police said.
The attack happened after dark in a northern suburb of Peshawar, a northwestern city still reeling from a commando-style suicide bombing blamed on Taliban militants on a luxury hotel Tuesday, which killed at least nine people.
Senior Peshawar police officer Mohammad Ejaz said that an attacker threw a hand grenade at a police van near a checkpoint.
‘When police gathered a suicide bomber blew himself up. One civilian was killed. Fourteen people were injured, eight of them policemen,’ he said.
Doctor Mohammad Shahid of Peshawar's main Lady Reading hospital said later that one of the injured had also died. An attacker threw a hand grenade at a police van near a checkpoint and when police gathered a suicide bomber blew himself up.—AP/File Photo
‘One person died in the hospital —he was a civilian —and three are still in a critical condition, including two policemen,’ he told AFP.
Another local police officer, Mohammad Nisar, said body parts of the suicide attacker had been recovered and sent to a hospital.
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