A husband and wife carried out a suicide attack that killed eight people at a police station in north-western Pakistan, the Taliban has said

The attack took place in Kolachi, near the tribal region and Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan. The pair entered the police station dressed in burkas, hiding rifles, hand grenades and suicide vests underneath. They held staff hostage for several hours before detonating themselves, killing seven officers and a tea boy. The pair pretended that they had a complaint to make when they initially entered the station before removing their burkas and launching an assault. The use of a husband and wife suicide squad by the Pakistani Taliban is a new tactic, and a new threat. Already, the militants have resorted to using children as human bombs, while a suicide attack in Pakistan's tribal areas in December 2010 was blamed on a woman bomber.