PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber killed himself in an attack on a police van in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar on Friday, but neither of the policemen in the vehicle were hurt, police said. Police said the bomber killed in the Peshawar blast was a 20-year-old man who had been living in the city. His father came to the scene and identified the body, police said. The dead man was said to have been a committed Muslim.Later on Friday, a bomb planted in a rubbish bin exploded at bus station in the eastern city of Lahore wounding 14 people, police said. Some of the victims were in a van and some standing nearby. Lahore police said two people had been killed but the cityÂ’s police chief, Khawaja Khalid Farooq, later said his men had been mistaken and there were no fatalities in the blast.
There was no claim of responsibility for either of the explosions.