Separate bombs in Pakistan prove deadly

Associated Press

KARACHI, Pakistan

A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Monday outside the home of a senior police officer tasked with cracking down on militants in Pakistan’s largest city. The blast killed at least eight people and left a crater 10 feet deep, police said.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the southern port city of Karachi. The target of the bombing, Chaudhry Aslam, escaped unscathed and said he’d not be cowed by the attack.

In a separate attack, a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded Monday night in a market in the northwestern city of Peshawar where several shops sell music and movies, said police officer Imtiaz Khan.

The bomb killed five people and wounded 35 others, said police officer Abdul Sattar Khan.