Suicide blast at wedding kills 7 in Pakistan

The death toll from a suicide bombing at a wedding near the Afghan border rose to seven yesterday, police said.

The bombing tore through a building housing members of a peace committee during a wedding ceremony on Friday in northwestern Pakistan’s Dera Ismail Khan district, said a police official.

The committees are made up of local residents and elders and supported by Islamabad as part of its efforts to counter militants in the regions along the Afghan border.

No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing.