Nine killed in Pakistan blast

At least nine people were killed and 30 injured when a suicide car bomber struck a police building near the US Embassy in Pakistan?s northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, officials said.

Even though no group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but it appeared to be another strike in the series of Taliban attacks that have struck the country in the recent weeks following the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad by U.S. commandos.

The Taliban have already claimed responsibility for three other attacks this month, including an 18-hour-long siege on a naval base, that have killed over a hundred people.

Wednesday?s attack targeted a station of the police?s criminal investigation department that also housed counter-terrorism cops, however the building was located in an army cantonment area with military facilities nearby, officials said.