Pakistan suffers another deadly suicide blast

A suicide bomber has rammed a car into a police station in northwest Pakistan killing at least 19 people.

The blast is the latest in a series of Taliban linked attacks to strike the flood-hit state.

Nearly 100 people were killed last week in suicide bombings on processions of minority Shi'ite Muslims in the eastern city of Lahore and southwestern city of Quetta.

"It goes to show that the terrorists have no creed except bloodshed and chaos, and are desperately carrying out their agenda regardless of the precarious conditions," Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani told a meeting of provincial officials.

The latest attack in Pakistan took place in the town of Lakki Marwat. The bomber struck a school van before hitting the rear wall of the police station. The blast turned most of the police station into rubble. Burned out cars were flipped on their sides.

"Nineteen people have been killed. There are nine policemen and two children among the dead," the Information Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, told press.

Hussain said 34 people, including 20 policemen, were wounded.