Islamabad  - A Taliban attack targeting a police check post and a bomb blast at a Sunni Muslim mosque on Saturday killed at least six people in Pakistan's restive North- Western Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said.

Three policemen were killed and one injured when Islamic militants raided on a security post at 3:45 am in the Lora Pull area of Bannu district, about 200 kilometres south of the provincial capital, Peshawar.

"Around two dozen or more Taliban besieged the post and fired several rockets at it," said police officer Farid Khan. "Our officers offered tough resistance but they were outnumbered by the militants."

Bannu borders the North Waziristan tribal district, a sanctuary of pro-Taliban militants and al-Qaeda fighters, and has seen several deadly attacks on Pakistani police and military targets.

Separately, three people were killed when a remote-control device planted in a Sunni Muslim mosque exploded in Hangu district of NWFP.

"So far we have a confirmation of three deaths and nine injured," the district police chief Sajjad Ahmed said.

The bombing came a day after a suicide attack during a Shia funeral killed at least eight people in another Dera Ismail Khan district of the province.

Hundreds of people have died during the sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni Muslim that has plagued the Islamic country since early 1980s. (dpa)