PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Militants detonated two bombs in a busy market and attacked two police checkpoints in northern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including the attackers.
The attacks in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan happened a day after an assault on security forces in the eastern city of Lahore killed about 30 people.
Two bombs in Peshawar exploded within seconds of each other at a popular market, police and witnesses said. Six people reportedly were killed; a doctor at a hospital said 80 people were wounded.
Commando units engaged in a gunfight with suspected militants holed up in a building near the market, said police chief Malik Naveed. Two gunmen were shot dead, and at least one was arrested.
Less than half an hour later, a suspected suicide bomber blew up a police checkpoint, killing four police and the attacker, police said.
In Dera Ismail Khan, 150 miles south of Peshawar, a suicide bomber rammed a three-wheeler taxi into a police checkpoint, killing one police officer and two civilians, police said. The Associated Press
