(Adds toll) PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A car-bomb went off by a police post in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday killing at least six people and wounding about 40, police and hospital staff said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but al Qaeda-linked militants have set off numerous bombs in Pakistan over the past year, many of them in the northwest and aimed at security forces. The blast came as members of parliament and the country's four provincial assemblies were voting for a new president to replace Pervez Musharraf, who resigned last month. "A vehicle laden with explosives went off near the police post which has been totally destroyed," said senior police official Garanullah. He said the toll could rise because a building had collapsed because of the blast. Elsewhere in the northwest, villagers battled Taliban militants after the Taliban tried to kidnap a Muslim holy man, and 20 villagers and six militants have been killed, police said. (Reporting by Faris Ali and Alamgir Bitani; Editing by Robert Birsel)
Flood victims wait to collect packets of drinking water at Jankinagar village in Purniya district, India's eastern state of Bihar September 5, 2008. Authorities battling a massive deluge in Bihar issued ...
