Peshawar, Oct 16 (IANS) A suicide bomber exploded close to a police station in this northwestern Pakistan city Friday, killing 14 people and injuring 15, the third terror attack here in a week. Sixty-eight people have been killed in the three incidents.
Online news agency said the attacker rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the building of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of the police in the Cantonment area leaving 14 people dead.

The building, used for interrogating terror suspects, collapsed in the blast. Inspector General Police Naveed Malik said several prisoners were among the injured.

An unknown number of schoolchildren who were passing by were also injured.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the police blamed the Taliban for the attack, sources said.

Television footage showed a badly mangled vehicle. The injured were taken to the Lady Reading Hospital.

On Thursday, an eight-year-old child was killed and nine people were injured in a car bomb attack in Peshawar, a bustling city where Taliban fighters are known to take refuge.

On Oct 9, a suicide bomber detonated a car stuffed with explosives in a busy market here, killing 53 people and injuring over 100.

Peshawar is the capital of the North West Frontier Province, four districts of which had been completely overrun by the Taliban. The Pakistani Army launched a major operation against the militants April 26 and managed to wrest control of the Swat, Buner, Lower Dir and Upper Dir after intense fighting that lasted almost five months.

The Pakistani Army says more than 1,500 militants were killed in the fighting.

A spate of terror attacks have hit Pakistan this month.

On Thursday, the Taliban laid siege to Lahore city with simultaneous attacks on three police establishments that killed 25 people, including 10 of the attackers. Eleven people died in suicide attacks elsewhere.

On Oct 10, terrorists had attacked the Pakistan military headquarters in Rawalpindi. The two-day standoff ended with 19 people, including a brigadier and a lieutenant colonel, being killed.