A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle hit a roadside checkpoint on a major highway in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 10 people and injuring 42 others, according to local officials.<br />A child was among those who died when the attacker riding "an explosives-laden motorcycle" struck the checkpoint on the Torkham-Jalalabad Highway linking Pakistan to Afghanistan, said Saiful Islam, a senior official in the semi-autonomous tribal government of the region.<br />Islam said a local security official, Nawab Shah, who was passing through the area some three miles from the provincial capital city of Peshawar, appeared to have been the target.<br />The highway was closed after the 9 a.m. bombing, blocking trucks carrying supplies to NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
