PESHAWAR - AT LEAST nine police officers were injured in three blasts in northwestern Pakistan late on Thursday, officials said.
Motorbike riders threw a hand grenade at an emergency police office in Dera Ismail Khan, wounding five policemen, three of them seriously, local police chief Mohammad Iqbal said.
Within half an hour two more grenades were lobbed on two police posts near the town's main bus station, wounding four more officers, Iqbal told reporters.
Hospital officials said eight police had been admitted.
'We have received eight people, three of them are in serious condition,' doctor Ashiq Saleem of a state-run hospital told journalists.
'They are all police officials,' he added.
There has been no claim for the attacks which come as the Pakistani military is engaged in flushing out Taliban insurgents from the former hill resort of Swat and two nearby districts.
Pakistani security troops are frequent targets of militant violence in which more than 1,500 government forces have been killed since 2002. -- AFP
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