By Faris Ali
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber
destroyed an office of Pakistan's main security agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding 20, witnesses and officials said.
Militants have launched several big bomb attacks in Peshawar since the army began an offensive against Taliban militants on October 17.
"It was the biggest explosion I've ever heard," said city resident Asad Ali.
A military spokesman said the bomber's target was the office of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and witnesses said the building in a military neighborhood had completely collapsed.
Four bodies and 20 wounded people had been brought into a city hospital, an official there said.
The army went on the offensive last month in South Waziristan, a lawless ethnic Pashtun region on the Afghan border, aiming to root out Pakistani Taliban militants behind a wave of violence in urban areas.
The militants have responded with intensified attacks in towns and cities, killing several hundred people.
(Additional Reporting by Alamgir Bitani, Andy Zeeshan Haider in Islamabad; Writing by Robert Birsel; Editing by Jerry Norton)
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