India, Aug. 3 -- The death toll in a suicide attack on a police station during a peace rally in northwest Pakistan rose to 17 on Monday, August 3, after three more people succumbed to injuries, police said.

The suicide blast took place when the Swat Peace Rally was in progress right across the police station in Kabal town in Swat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday.

The bomber detonated his explosives when policemen tried to stop and search him at the entrance to the police station. Fourteen people, including five security men, were killed and over a dozen were injured in the suicide attack on Sunday, officials said.

On Monday, three injured people succumbed to their injuries at a hospital, taking the death toll to 17, in...