Suicide bomber takes30 lives at policeman's funeral

A Taliban suicide bomber killed 30 people at the funeral of a policeman in Pakistan on Thursday, including five senior police officers, in the third deadly attack on government targets in two weeks.

"They are not Muslims. They are not humans," Inspector General Mushtaq Sukhera said.

"We have no other option but to fight against terrorists," he added. "We have made sacrifices and we will continue to do so and we will not bow down."

At least 30 people were confirmed dead and 62 wounded, Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad, the provincial chief secretary, said.

Twenty-one of the dead were police officers, Sukhera said. Others had not been identified but children attending the funeral were among the dead and wounded, Mohammed said.

On July 24, militants bombed military intelligence headquarters in the city of Sukkur and fought a gunbattle with security forces for more than an hour, killing seven and wounding at least 40.

Last week, more than 100 militants attacked a prison in Dera Ismail Khan freeing 250 prisoners, including Taliban commanders.

In Afghanistan on Thursday, a bomb planted in a graveyard killed 14 women and children, many of them picnicking at the graveside of a family member during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said.