A car bomb attack targeting a police station killed at least two policemen and injured other 19 in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar.

A car bomb attack targeting a police station killed at least two policemen and injured other 19 in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar.

The Pakistani police said that a bomber detonated an explosives-laden car in the early hours of Wednesday morning, destroying the three-floor building.

"A bomber hit his explosives-laden car into the Criminal Investigation Department police station in the Peshawar Cantonment area," AFP news agency quoted senior police officer Mohammad Ijaz as saying.
“Two police were killed and 19 people wounded”, Peshawar Police Chief Liaqat Ali Khan told AFP.

A doctor at a nearby hospital, Imran Ahmad, said: “Seventeen injured people have been brought here: eight policemen and nine civilians, one child among them”.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Earlier on Wednesday, militants attacked a security checkpoint in Peshawar, leaving at least 22 people dead.