Suicide attack in Peshawar kills 3

A suicide bomber in a rickshaw blew himself up in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar on Monday, killing three people.

Members of a bomb disposal team stand over an auto-rickshaw which was destroyed in a suicide bomb attack in Peshawar November 9, 2009. A suicide bomber in the auto-rickshaw blew himself up in Pakistan on Monday killing three people when police stopped him at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar, police said.REUTERS/K Parvez

Five others were wounded. Officials say the bomber was likely heading to a more crowded area but set off his explosives when police stopped the rickshaw. It's the latest in a weeks-long string of attacks that have killed more than three-hundred people and appear aimed at distracting the government from its offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan. Peshawar has been hit several times during the recent surge of strikes.