Suicide bomber kills five at Pakistan police centre

PESHAWAR (AFP) - A suicide bomber Thursday rammed an explosives-packed car into the gates of a police recruitment centre in northwest Pakistan, killing at least five people and injuring 22, police said.

The attack in the northwestern town of Hangu was the latest in a string of attacks targeting security forces in the wake of last week's bloody government raid on militants inside the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad.

"There was a suicide attack. A red Suzuki car smashed into the gates of a police recruitment college in Hangu killing one policeman and four civilians," area police chief Zulfiqar Cheema told AFP.

"Twenty-two people were also injured, some critically."