Video | Double Pakistan paramilitary base bombing reportedly kill 73

A number of people were hurt in the blasts at the training centre for the Frontier Constabulary in Shabqadar, Charsadda district. After early suspicions that one of the bombs was planted, police now confirmed that both blasts were caused by suicide attacks.

The bombings happened as newly trained cadets from the Frontier Constabulary were getting into buses for a short leave after completing their course. At least 65 of the dead were recruits, but there were also civilian casualties, officials say.

The injured were taken to a local hospital and security forces sealed off the area.

A number of vehicles were destroyed in the blast.

Shabqadar lies on the border with Afghanistan, about 35km (22 miles) north-west of Peshawar, not far from the militant stronghold of Mohmand.

The Pakistani Taliban is already claiming responsibility, saying they carried out the attack to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden earlier this month. The group has killed hundreds of people in bombings and other attacks across Pakistan in recent years.

The al-Qaeda leader was killed during a US commando raid in the northern Pakistani town of Abbottabad on 2 May.