In a bloody start to the new year, Pakistan today witnessed a major terror attack when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the wall of a volleyball ground in the country's northwest killing 47 people and injuring 40 others. The suicide attack occurred at Shah Hasankhel village, located 25 km from Lakki Marwat in the southern part of the North West Frontier Province. people were watching a volleyball game<br/><br/>between two local teams when the bomber struck the playground's wall with his vehicle. In a separate attack, a tribal elder associated with an anti-Taliban militia and five others were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in was targeted with a roadside bomb in the restive Bajaur region. Today's attack was the latest in a series of devastating suicide bombings across Pakistan that has killed over 500 people since October last year.