Police said a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in northwestern Pakistan killed 11 people, including three police.

Suicide bombers struck today in two areas of north-western Pakistan, killing up to 38 people, while Taliban militants broke a 10-month-old peace pact with the government along the frontier with Afghanistan.

Three Pakistani men were hanged today for gang-raping a woman six years ago, after appeals against their conviction and pleas for clemency were turned town, an official said.