PESHAWAR: A suicide attack on the residence of a peace lashkar chief in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa capital killed at least two people and wounded five others, DawnNews reported on Thursday night.

The attack took place at the residence of Adezai peace lashkar’s chief Farmanullah Khan in Adezai area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Khan confirmed the incident saying two people including the suicide bomber died in the attack on his hujra.

"Suicide bomber entered my hujra and exploded himself," he told Dawn.com.

Farmanullah took over as the chief of Adezai Peace Committee after the death of his elder brother Dilawar Khan who had survived a number of attacks on his life as well.

Officials in Lady Reading Hospital confirmed that two bodies have been brought to the hospital and seven including a child are injured.

The SSP Operations Najeebur Rehman Bagwi also confirmed the incident and casualties.

Peshawar is on the edge of Pakistan's tribal region, the main sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban militants in the country.

The attack came days after Pakistani armed forces launched Zarb-i-Azb military operation against local and foreign militants hiding in North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Dozens of militant hideouts have been destroyed and hundreds of suspected terrorists have died in first five days of the military offensive.

No one has yet claimed responsibility of the attack, but the city has frequently been attacked in the past few years by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan militants.