Suicide Bomber Kills 3 at Pakistan Press Club

Pakistani volunteers rush an injured person to a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, 22 Dec 2009

Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing three people.

Officials say a policeman stopped the bomber at the gate of the press club Tuesday and tried to search him, at which point the bomber detonated his explosives. The blast killed the officer, a press club accountant and a woman. It also blew out the windows of the building.

The attack wounded 17 people, including passengers on a bus that was passing by the press club at the time.

The attack was the first against a media target in Peshawar, which has experienced frequent bombings in recent months. Militants have been intensifying attacks across Pakistan in revenge for a Pakistani army offensive against Taliban strongholds in the country's northwest.

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