[Al Arabiya Latest] Seven people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Kohat on Sunday, police said. "Seven people have been killed and 21 were injured in this car suicide attack," Abdullah Jan, the district's top police officer told reporters. "These incidents are a reaction to the military operation in the tribal areas."Another police official said five policemen were among the dead.
The military has carried out a series of successful crackdowns against homegrown al-Qaeda-backed Taliban fighters in the country's northwest. Militants have responded with a wave of bomb attacks killing hundreds of civilian and security officials.
The attack comes just a day after two suicide bombers dressed in burqas struck a crowd of displaced people collecting aid handouts, killing at least 41 and wounding more than 60 at a nearby camp. A group affiliated with Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack on a centre where displaced people were registering for aid, about 40 km (25 miles) away from the site of Sunday's attack.