Bullet proof wall to guard bombed Peshawar US Consulate

PESHAWAR - A bullet proof boundary wall is being constructed around the US Consulate here, which was severely damaged in a suicide attack earlier this month.

Security in and around the consulate building has been beefed up and no outsider is permitted to enter the premises during the construction work, The Nation reports.

At least six people, including the four attackers were killed in the bomb and grenade attack on the US Consulate on April 5.

The militant strike was the first direct assault on a US mission in Pakistan since 2006.

In 2006, a militant had rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the car of an American diplomat near the consulate in Karachi, killing him and three others. (ANI)