North-west Pakistan bomb 'kills 17'

30 June 2013 Last updated at 07:48 ET

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The BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad: "The target was a convoy of vehicles of the security forces"

At least 17 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb attack targeting the security forces in north-west Pakistan.

Hospital officials have told the BBC four children were amongst those killed in the attack near Peshawar.

The bomb was placed inside a car parked on the side of the road in a busy market area just south of the city.

The attack came during a visit to Pakistan by the British Prime Minister David Cameron.

The target was a convoy of troops, but all those reported to have been killed were civilians.

The explosion was followed by an exchange of fire between Frontier Corps - paramilitary soldiers - and the armed assailants, reported Pakistani newspaper the Express Tribune.

The BBC's Richard Galpin, in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, says this was just the latest in a spate of attacks which has left 60 people dead in the past two weeks.

He add that it is unclear who carried out the bombing, but the Pakistan Taliban has often targeted the security forces in the past.

Tackling extremist violence was high on the agenda during Mr Cameron's talks with the Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad.

Peshawar is on the edge of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region - the main militant haven from which attacks are often launched.

It has been hit by dozens of bombings and killings over recent years.

Last Monday, a senior police and his driver were shot dead in the city. Three days earlier, a suicide bomb attack on a neighbourhood populated by some of the city's minority Shia Muslims killed 15.

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