A bomb exploded at a bus stand in northwest Pakistan early Sunday, killing six people in the latest violence to hit the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
The attack followed reports that another top al-Qaeda operative, Ilyas Kashmiri, had been killed in a recent U.S. missile strike along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
The blast occurred at a bazaar in the Matani area, around 20 kilometres south of the main northwest city of Peshawar.
At least 10 people were wounded. Many of the dead and injured were in a pickup truck near the bus stand, police official Abdul Ghaffar Khan said.
TV footage showed the twisted truck and other damaged vehicles scattered at the scene, while rescue workers rushed away the wounded. Officials weren't immediately certain whether the bomb was a planted device or whether a suicide attacker was involved.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault, but since the May 2 raid that killed al-Qaeda leader bin Laden in a garrison town elsewhere in Pakistan's northwest, the Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for several other attacks.
The bloodshed has included a twin suicide bombing that killed 80 people at a paramilitary police training facility, and a 17-hour siege of a naval base.
On Saturday, a Pakistani intelligence official said Kashmiri, an al-Qaida leader sought in the 2008 Mumbai siege and rumoured to be a longshot choice to succeed bin Laden, was believed killed in an attack by a remote-controlled U.S. attack plane.
While it was unclear how Kashmiri was tracked, his name was on a list of militants that both Pakistan and the United States recently agreed to jointly target as part of measures to restore trust, officials have said.
The attack followed reports that another top al-Qaeda operative, Ilyas Kashmiri, had been killed in a recent U.S. missile strike along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
The blast occurred at a bazaar in the Matani area, around 20 kilometres south of the main northwest city of Peshawar.
At least 10 people were wounded. Many of the dead and injured were in a pickup truck near the bus stand, police official Abdul Ghaffar Khan said.
TV footage showed the twisted truck and other damaged vehicles scattered at the scene, while rescue workers rushed away the wounded. Officials weren't immediately certain whether the bomb was a planted device or whether a suicide attacker was involved.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault, but since the May 2 raid that killed al-Qaeda leader bin Laden in a garrison town elsewhere in Pakistan's northwest, the Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for several other attacks.
The bloodshed has included a twin suicide bombing that killed 80 people at a paramilitary police training facility, and a 17-hour siege of a naval base.
On Saturday, a Pakistani intelligence official said Kashmiri, an al-Qaida leader sought in the 2008 Mumbai siege and rumoured to be a longshot choice to succeed bin Laden, was believed killed in an attack by a remote-controlled U.S. attack plane.
While it was unclear how Kashmiri was tracked, his name was on a list of militants that both Pakistan and the United States recently agreed to jointly target as part of measures to restore trust, officials have said.