BBC News, this is Mike Cooper.

Millitants have carried out a second big bomb attack in as many days against police in northwestern Pakistan. At least twenty people were killed. The Pakistani authorities say militants may be

taking advantages of

the floods to

step up

their attacks. As Marian L. reports.

Police say a car bomb

detonate

d at the gates of a residential police compound. The powerful explosion caused several buildings to collapse and more people are feared to be trapped under the rubble. With the run-up to Eid, the festival celebrating the end of Ramadan, many people were out in the streets about to break the fast when the bomb went off. There have been three other big bomb attacks in Pakistan in the last week alone, killing almost 120 people. On Monday, the Pakistan Taliban said they carried out the suicide bombing on a police station that killed 19 people.

There's been widespread condemnation of plans by a small church in the United States to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday.

The White House said any activity that put American troops in harm's way was of concern while NATO said such action

contradict

ed all the values the alliance stood for.

There were protests in Afghanistan and in Indonesia. And Iran warned the public burning of the Koran could

unleash

uncontrolled muslim response. The Florida church said it wanted to

counter

what it described as the evil of Islam.