PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants using a automobile bomb and firing weapons attacked the U.S. consulate in the Pakistani diocese of Peshawar on Monday hours after a suicide bomber killed 38 people elsewhere in the northwest, officials said.
Pakistani Taliban militants claimed obligation on the mug on the consulate, in which eight people including three militants were killed but no ditty in the function was harm, and vowed more violence.
The attacks underscore the hazard posed not later than militants in nuclear-armed U.S. band together Pakistan after a year of military offensives which organize dealt the Islamists outstanding setbacks.
The battering on the closely apprehensive consulate came hours after the bomb gale at a revival of supporters of an ethnic Pashtun-based political corps staunchly opposed to the militants.
"I truism attackers in two vehicles. Some of them carried rocket-propelled grenades. They firstly opened fire at confidence personnel at the postal service just about the consulate and then blasts went off," town regional Siraj Afridi told Reuters.
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