Bomb blast claims seven lives in Peshawar

At least seven people have been killed in a bomb blast close to a police checkpoint in north-western Pakistan, police and local officials say.

About 20 people were also wounded in the blast, which took place in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on the outskirts of Peshawar.

There has been fierce fighting in the region between security forces and the Pakistani Taliban.

No-one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

A suspected suicide attack at a government office in north-western Pakistan killed at least 26 people last month.

That bomb went off outside the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) office in the town of Mardan.

The attack was one of the deadliest since the December 2014 massacre by the Taliban of 150 pupils and teachers in Peshawar.