PESHAWAR: A suicide attack targeting police in Peshawar late Sunday wounded five officers and badly damaged a vehicle, officials said.

The bomber struck a police patrol in Dera Ismail Khan town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

"The suicide bomber was on foot. He blew himself up when the police vehicle was patrolling in a street," senior police official Qazi Jamil ur-Rehman told AFP.

"Five policemen were wounded, condition of one of them was critical," he said.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012

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