12 January 2011 Last updated at 14:27 GMT 
Up to 20 others were injured as the explosives-laden Toyota Stout caused a huge blast at the Merian police station in Bannu district.
Witnesses say parts of the police station have collapsed, along with a mosque inside the compound.
Bannu is close to Pakistan's troubled tribal areas which border Afghanistan.
Militants have killed hundreds in a wave of attacks in recent years.
Police told the BBC the car bomber had rammed the outer wall of the Merian police station, which is in a heavily populated area.
They said more than 50 police officers were in the station at the time of the attack.
The official Pakistan Television Corporation reports that all the dead were members of the Frontier Corps, a federal paramilitary police force.
Witnesses say the district was plunged into darkness by the blast as electricity lines were damaged.
The station is 12km (seven miles) south-west of Bannu town, near the border with Janikhel tribal area, which serves as a buffer between Bannu district and North Waziristan tribal region.
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At least 16 people have been killed as a suicide car bomber rammed a heavily fortified police station in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
Witnesses say parts of the police station have collapsed, along with a mosque inside the compound.
Bannu is close to Pakistan's troubled tribal areas which border Afghanistan.
Militants have killed hundreds in a wave of attacks in recent years.
Police told the BBC the car bomber had rammed the outer wall of the Merian police station, which is in a heavily populated area.
They said more than 50 police officers were in the station at the time of the attack.
The official Pakistan Television Corporation reports that all the dead were members of the Frontier Corps, a federal paramilitary police force.
Witnesses say the district was plunged into darkness by the blast as electricity lines were damaged.
The station is 12km (seven miles) south-west of Bannu town, near the border with Janikhel tribal area, which serves as a buffer between Bannu district and North Waziristan tribal region.
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