Four killed in suicide attack in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - At least four people were killed in a suicide attack on a police station in restive north-west Pakistan, television station GEO TV reported Saturday.

The attackers used a pickup truck to carry out the attack in Bannu in North-West Frontier Province. The area near the border with Afghanistan is a stronghold of the radical Islamist Taliban.

The report added that at least 20 other people were injured in the incident and many of them were in critical condition.