A Pakistani rescuer displays a bottle of military style red smoke found at a bomb blast site in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 3, 2012. Four people including two Americans were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a car of American consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

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2 Americans among 4 killed in suicide blast in Peshawar, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Two Americans were among four people killed in a suicide blast that occurred early Monday morning in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar, said a senior local official.

Mian Iftikhar, information minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province with Peshawar as the provincial capital, told local media that an explosive-laden car rammed into a vehicle carrying employees of the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar near a UNHCR office on the University Road in the city, killing at least four people including two U.S. nationals and the suicide bomber himself and wounding a dozen others including four policemen.

Local media said one of the two Americans killed is identified as a man working as a technical administrator in the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar. Local TV footage even showed the passport picture of the killed man with a bald head. Full story

Pakistani rescuers inspect a destroyed vehicle at a bomb blast site in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 3, 2012. Four people including two Americans were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a car of American consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

A Pakistani rescuer displays a burnt US passport found at a bomb blast site in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 3, 2012. Four people including two Americans were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a car of American consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

Pakistani hospital staff treat a person injured in a bomb blast site in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 3, 2012. Four people including two Americans were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a car of American consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)