16 Sep 2011

Funeral bomb kills 20

6:56 am on 16 September 2011

Police in northwest Pakistan say at least 20 people have been killed in a bomb attack on the funeral of a tribal elder. Another four dozen people were wounded.

The local police chief told the BBC that some villagers at the funeral in Lower Dir near the Afghan border, belonged to an anti-Taliban group and may have been the target.

The BBC reports funerals of tribal leaders in the north-west have been targeted before

On Tuesday, gunmen ambushed a school bus near the north-western city of Peshawar, killing six. The children were said to be from a pro-government tribe.