At least seven persons were killed and at least 67, including a provincial minister, injured in five separate attacks in Pakistan on Thursday.

A policeman was killed and about a dozen others injured in a suicide attack in Peshawar on Thursday, barely two days after the suicide bombing at the Pearl Continental hotel that killed 17 people.

The suicide bomber struck two police vans patrolling the Ring Road on the outskirts of Peshawar shortly after unidentified attackers lobbed a grenade at a police picket in the same area.

The police had launched a search operation after the grenade attack. The suicide bomber approached the police vans and blew himself up.

One person was killed and 30 injured when a bomb went off in a train in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Thursday. Railway officials said the bomb exploded in an economy-class coach of the Quetta-bound Bolan Mail train.

The explosion occurred after the train crossed Dozan railway station in Quetta railway division, they said. The train was on its way from Karachi to Quetta.

The outlawed Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the bombing of the train.

In another attack in Khuzdar district of Balochistan, two people including a Frontier Constabulary soldier, were killed and six security personnel wounded when a remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorcycle was set off, the APP reported.

In NWFP, a provincial minister was injured and three of his guards were killed when unidentified gunmen ambushed the minister’s car.

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