At least five people were killed Tuesday and 25 wounded in a suicide attack against a police station in Pakistan's northwestern district of Hangu, told local television channels. The attack occurred when a suicide bomber crashed his car packed with explosives into the police station in Doaba, according to private TV 'Geo TV' and 'Dawn', which cited no sources.
The great explosion caused the deaths of five police officers as 'Geo TV', while 'Dawn' said killed four civilians and a policeman. The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals, some of them critically, according to medical sources. Both Hangu and other towns in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, which is near the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, there is a strong sectarian tension due to the presence of Shiites, and recorded attacks often.
The bodies are usually hardest hit by the security forces, who fought with the insurgents continued fighting in various parts of this troubled region, but attacks have also beaten to places of worship, civil congregations anti-Taliban militias. A study by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), in 2010 there were a total of 2,113 attacks by insurgents, terrorists or sectarian cutting, which took the lives of 2,913 people and injured 5,824 others. 
The great explosion caused the deaths of five police officers as 'Geo TV', while 'Dawn' said killed four civilians and a policeman. The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals, some of them critically, according to medical sources. Both Hangu and other towns in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, which is near the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, there is a strong sectarian tension due to the presence of Shiites, and recorded attacks often.
The bodies are usually hardest hit by the security forces, who fought with the insurgents continued fighting in various parts of this troubled region, but attacks have also beaten to places of worship, civil congregations anti-Taliban militias. A study by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), in 2010 there were a total of 2,113 attacks by insurgents, terrorists or sectarian cutting, which took the lives of 2,913 people and injured 5,824 others.
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