A SUICIDE attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Pakistan’s largest city, killing the diplomat and three other people before President George W Bush’s visit to Pakistan. Fifty-two people were wounded.

A suicide attacker rammed a car packed with high-intensity explosives into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Karachi, Pakistan today, killing four people and wounding 52 outside the US consulate.

At least one car bomb exploded today outside the US consulate and a luxury hotel in Karachi, killing four people and wounding 49, two days ahead of a visit to Pakistan by the US president, police said.