In Pakistan, a senior police officer was among 12 people killed, when a bomb went off near a police vehicle in troubled northwest today.<br/>Local TV news channels quoted police sources and witnesses<br/>as saying that the bomb, believed to be hidden in a rickshaw,<br/>exploded as the police van passed through an area on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan city in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province. Over 10 others were also injured in the blast.<br/> Deputy Superintendent of Police Iqbal Khan, his bodyguard and driver, two children and a woman were killed in the attack that claimed a total of 12 lives. Khan was driving<br/>from his home to work when the blast occurred. Several policemen and passers-by were among the injured.<br/> Witnesses said that the police van and the rickshaw<br/>were destroyed in the blast that occurred at Kachi Paind Khan<br/>neighbourhood of Dera Ismail Khan.<br/> No group claimed responsibility for the attack.<br/> Militants regularly target security forces and police<br/>in their bloody campaign against the government in Pakistan's<br/>northwest. <br/><br/>