Pakistan suicide blast death toll rises to 18

Three more police officers have died from the suicide attack near Islamabad's Red Mosque, bringing the death toll to 18, an official said Monday.

Naeem Iqbal, a police spokesman, said two officers died late Sunday from their wounds, while the third died early Monday.

No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion, which also wounded dozens and appeared to be the capital's deadliest in about a year. Three of the dead were civilians while the rest were police, Iqbal said.

The blast unnerved the usually tranquil city the same day thousands of Islamists marked the one-year anniversary of a military siege on the nearby radical Red Mosque, an event …