Suicide attack targets U.S. Consulate vehicle in Pakistan; no staffers killed

 An explosives-filled car slammed into a U.S. Consulate vehicle in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing two Pakistanis and wounding two U.S. consular staff, authorities said.

The suicide attack did not kill any U.S. Consulate employees, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement.

She said the U.S. authorities were "seeking further information about other victims of this heinous act."

Nuland's statement followed an assertion by local Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain that two Americans had died in the blast.

But Umar Riaz, a senior Peshawar police official, said that the U.S. consular security detail surrounded the vehicle, which was severely damaged in the attack, and took away the individuals who'd been traveling in it.

As a result, Riaz said he had no information about the people who were in the consular vehicle.

Two Pakistanis were killed and 25 others were wounded by the explosion, Pakistani police and health officials said.