Pakistan: 8 killed, 5 wounded in suicide bombing, police say

A suicide bomber detonated at a checkpoint in western Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding five more, officials said.

The bomber set off the blast from the back of a motorbike rickshaw near the town of Mir Ali in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a local police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.

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Four police officers were killed alongside two members of a state paramilitary force and two civilians in the attack near the border with Afghanistan, he said.

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"Among the five injured personnel, the condition of three is critical, and they have been transferred to a local military hospital," he added.

A local government official who also did not want to be named confirmed the same toll of dead and wounded.

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