Bomb at market kills 10 in northwest Pakistan

It was planted in a small passenger bus parked at a bus stand, said police official Mohammad Jehangir, citing initial reports. Television channels said the attack may have been carried out by a suicide bomber.

Pakistan's U.S.-backed government faces resilient Taliban insurgents who keep carrying out suicide bombings in defiance of a series of military offensives launched last year against their strongholds in the northwest.

The Pakistani Taliban, which is linked to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing on the office compound of a government official in the Mohmand region of the northwest on Monday that killed at least 40 people. (Reporting by Sami Paracha; Writing by Michael Georgy)