PESHAWAR: One person was killed and 18 others sustained injuries in an explosion in Peshawar's Hashtnagri mobile market, Geo News reported.Sources added, that the bomb was a timed device that used...
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February 21, 2013
PESHAWAR: One person was killed and 18 others sustained injuries in an explosion in Peshawar's Hashtnagri mobile market, Geo News reported.
Sources added, that the bomb was a timed device that used between 1 and 1.5 kilograms of explosive material. According to police officials a CD shop was the target of the blast.
The dead and injured have been shifted to Lady Reading Hospital.
SP City Police Khalid Hamdani said there is intelligence of the presence of 12 suicide bombers in the city and security had been heightened.