Suicide bomb attack kills three

A suspected suicide bomb attack at a Pakistan police checkpoint in Peshawar city killed three people and wounded another five. Today's attack comes a day after a suicide bomber struck at a crowded cattle market in Peshawar killing 14.

A suspected suicide bomb attack at a Pakistan police checkpoint on the ring road of northwest city of Peshawar killed three people and wounded another five on Monday, police said.

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"It was a suspected suicide attack. Three people were killed, five wounded," police official Mohammad Karim told AFP.

Doctor Zafar Iqbal at the city's main government-run Lady Reading Hospital confirmed that medics received two dead bodies and six wounded.

Monday's attack came one day after a suicide bomber killed 14 people in a crowded cattle market in Peshawar.