US diplomat dies in suicide attack

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.

The blast propelled cars into the air and flung wreckage as far as 200 yards. It shattered windows at the US consulate and on all 10 floors of a nearby hotel.

Mr Bush condemned the attack and said “terrorists and killers” would not prevent him from going to Pakistan on the final leg of his tour of south Asia.