Police chief among five dead in Pakistan bombings

A pair of bombings targeting police in the north-western Pakistan city of Peshawar killed five people today, including a senior police officer, officials said.

In the most deadly attack, a suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying Rasheed Khan, the deputy superintendent of police in southern Peshawar, killing him and three others, including his driver, one of his guards and a passer-by, said police official Shafqat Malik.