PESHAWAR: A teenage suicide bomber attacked a Pakistan journalists’ club today, killing three people in an unprecedented assault on themedia in a country plagued by Islamist insurgency. Strapped with explosives packed with nails, the young man walked up to the gate of the press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar and blew himself up as police tried to stop him entering the building, officials said. Attacks on civilian targets are escalating in the city of 2.5 million people on the edge of Pakistan’s tribal belt on the Afghan border, an area Washington brands the most dangerous place on Earth and the chief sanctuary of Al-Qaeda. The Taliban have stepped up strikes this year to avenge Pakistan military operations to eradicate their northwest strongholds and have threatened the media, but Tuesday’s blast was deadliest bomb yet targeting the press. “I was coming out of the canteen when I suddenly heard a huge blast. Smoke engulfed the building immediately and when I reached the spot, I saw human organs littered on the ground,” said television journalist Nisar Mohammad Khan. The force of the explosion blew out the windows at the press club, damaged the guard hut and ripped through nearby vehicles, said witnesses. “He was stopped by police deployed outside. When the police official started searching him, the attacker blew himself up,” Peshawar police chief Liaquat Ali told reporters at the scene. “He was under 20 with pimples on his face and short,” Ali told AFP.