Two people were killed today when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a press club in north-western Pakistan, officials said.

Police commandos acting on a tip-off killed one militant and arrested five others today in a raid against a bombing cell accused in recent attacks around the north west Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said today.

An accidental explosion ripped through a store in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least three people and trapping others in a separate building that caught fire, police said – rattling nerves in a city repeatedly pounded with militant attacks.