<p>The device exploded when the vehicle was in a petrol pump at Shabqadar, a town 70 km from the North West Frontier Province capital of Peshawar. The town is also located near the boundary with the Mohmand tribal region.</p>.<p>Women and children were among the dead and injured, TV news channels reported. The injured, several of them in a critical condition, were taken to hospitals in Peshawar.</p>.<p><br />Security forces cordoned off the area and started a search soon after the blast.</p>.<p><br />No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred hours after two security personnel were killed and three more injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a bid to escape being arrested in the restive Swat valley.</p>.<p><br />The attacker blew himself up shortly after he was stopped at a check post in Mingora, the main city in Swat, last night.</p>.<p>This was the second suicide attack in Swat since Saturday, when six persons, including five soldiers, were killed when a bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a check post.</p>
<p>The device exploded when the vehicle was in a petrol pump at Shabqadar, a town 70 km from the North West Frontier Province capital of Peshawar. The town is also located near the boundary with the Mohmand tribal region.</p>.<p>Women and children were among the dead and injured, TV news channels reported. The injured, several of them in a critical condition, were taken to hospitals in Peshawar.</p>.<p><br />Security forces cordoned off the area and started a search soon after the blast.</p>.<p><br />No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred hours after two security personnel were killed and three more injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a bid to escape being arrested in the restive Swat valley.</p>.<p><br />The attacker blew himself up shortly after he was stopped at a check post in Mingora, the main city in Swat, last night.</p>.<p>This was the second suicide attack in Swat since Saturday, when six persons, including five soldiers, were killed when a bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a check post.</p>