ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Ten people lost their lives when a powerful blast rocked Islamabad Sunday afternoon.

A suicide attacker detonated explosives near a police station in the capital killing more than 10 police officers, officials said.
The blast occurred in a kiosk in front of the police station, said Naeem Iqbal, a police spokesman. Television footage showed wounded security forces being taken away and ambulances rushing to the area.
Just moments before the explosion, an Associated Press reporter passed by the scene and saw more than 20 security forces gathered nearby.
After the blast, a traffic intersection in the area was splattered with blood. Body parts were scattered as far as about 50 yards from the scene, and shattered glass also covered the area, which police cordoned off.
Rana Akbar Hayat, a senior government official, told reporters near the scene that more than 10 people were killed and that they had been targeted by the attacker.
The blast came as thousands of Islamists were gathered not far away to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on Red Mosque in Islamabad. It was not clear whether the events were linked.
The explosion also came following recent threats of revenge from militants in Pakistan angered by a paramilitary operation against miscreants in the tribal northwest.
A new government that came to power following February elections has sought to end militancy, caused by the prolonged U.S. occupation of neighboring Afghanistan, through peace deals with angry elements.
That approach has earned criticism from U.S. officials, who say the deals will simply give time for Pashtun fighters to regroup and intensify attacks on occupation forces in Afghanistan.