Four die in Pakistan bomb attack

Police say at least four people have died and nearly 30 others have been injured in a bomb attack carried out in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar.

The bomb went off on a busy roadside at the Jehangir Abad neighborhood of the city on Monday.

Local police official Mohammad Faisal said that a police patrol vehicle was the target of the attack.

Faisal added that a bus passing close to the police vehicle had suffered the most damage in the blast.

Dozens of people have been killed in bomb attacks over the past few weeks ahead of Pakistan’s general elections of May 11.

Pakistan will hold its National Assembly elections on May 11. The National Assembly has a total of 342 members, of which 272 are elected by popular vote. The last National Assembly elections were held in February 2008.

Pakistan will also hold elections for 577 seats of the Provincial Assemblies on the same day.

Pakistani media say over 35,000 people have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the United States in the so-called war on terror.