Eight people including six police officers were killed and several more wounded Monday in a car bomb attack targeting a senior policeman in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi

Eight people including six police officers were killed and several more wounded Monday in a car bomb attack targeting a senior policeman in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, officials said.
  
Senior Superintendent Aslam Khan, who was unhurt but whose home was destroyed, told AFP he had been threatened by the Pakistani Taliban -- which is allied to Al-Qaeda -- and that he was the target of the attack. "It was a car bomb attack on my house," he said. "I was receiving threats from Tehreek-e-Taliban. Taliban are involved in this attack."
  
Khan heads the counter-terrorism unit of the Police Crime Investigation Department in Karachi, investigating militant cells in the city. Several neighboring houses were also wrecked in the attack, private Pakistan TV channels showed, with four cars being badly damaged and a two-meter (six feet) deep crater left in front of Khan's home.
  
"Eight people including six policemen have been killed and several others were wounded. It was a car bomb attack," Shoukat Hussain, another senior police officer told AFP. "A child and a woman were also killed." "We are investigating whether a suicide bomber was riding the car or someone parked it outside the house," Hussain added. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.