Twin blasts kill 15 in northwest Pakistan

At least 15 people were killed in northwest Pakistan Saturday in three powerful bomb blasts, police said.
Six people died when a police station in the Bannu district of North West Frontier Province was targeted by a suicide car bomb, police said.
The suicide bomber was in a truck packed with an estimated 160 kg (353 pounds) of explosives, police said. Among the 55 people injured were 28 policemen and 27 civilians. Dozens of nearby shops and buildings were destroyed.
Police arrested a suspect near the Maidan police station.
Another eight people were killed five hours later in the provincial capital of Peshawar after a bomb exploded in the central business district, according to government official Sahibzada Anis Khan.
The blast occurred near a state-owned bank and a military hospital in Peshawar's Saddar market. Police arrested two suspects at the scene but did not say how they were connected to the lethal attack.

Abdul Hamid, the chief executive of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, told CNN that the eight people killed were brought to the hospital and another 45 injured people -- five of them in critical condition -- were being treated.
The head of Peshawar police's bomb disposal squad, Shafqat Malik, told CNN affiliate Geo TV that the Peshawar blast was the work of a suicide car bomber. He said the car was packed with about 100 kg (220 pounds) of explosives.
Seconds before the bomb went off, the suicide attacker lobbed several grenades from the car in an apparent attempt to clear his way and get closer to his target, Malik said.
Khan told CNN that the grenades did not explode.
Police said the suicide bomber's intended target was not immediately clear.

A third bomb exploded Saturday afternoon inside a book store in Gilgit, a city in an autonomous region near the Indian border, police official Wazir Awan said. A store salesman was killed and five others were injured, Awan said.
No one has claimed responsibility for any of Saturday's three attacks.