PESHAWAR -A suicide bomber killed three people outside a popular media club yesterday in Peshawar, officials said, a key northwestern Pakistan town that has become the epicentre of Islamabad's battle against militants. Seventeen were wounded in yester-day's bombing outside the Peshawar Press Club. "It was a suicide attack.

The bomber wanted to get into the Press Club and, when our police guard stopped him, he blew himself up," city police chief Liaqat Ali Khan told Reuters. Two policemen and a passer-by were killed, a Peshawar city official said. At least one of the dead lay near a gate into the red-brick club, television pictures showed, and broken glass littered the ground after the blast smashed the club's windows.