Nearly 20 people counting women and children were killed and more than 50 wounded Tuesday in a car bomb attack target a police headquarters in Pakistan's northwestern city of Kohat.
Militants have opened a series of brazen attacks in the past week as Muslims mark the final days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Six policemen were among the dead in the newest blast and police said the other wounded were women and children who were contravention their fast in the garrison city, close to the lawless ethnic areas of Khyber and Orakzai.
"It was a car bomb blast, we are investigate whether the car was parked or was explode by a suicide bomber," Khalid Khan, a top managerial official in Kohat, told AFP.
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