Blast in Peshawar taking place on Friday being investigated

Blast in Peshawar taking place on Friday being investigated

At least 19 people were killed and 39 others injured when a powerful bomb ripped through a bus carrying government employees and private passengers from Peshawar to Charsadda on Friday afternoon. It has been reported by the local police of the area that
the passengers on the bus were both government employees as well as civilians.

The Medical Superintendent of Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital, Rahim Jan Afridi, said that 11 bodies had been brought to the hospital and 18 injured were under treatment. The body of two-year-old Mahnoor lay there with that of her mother.

Medical Superintendent of Charsadda Hospital said that seven bodies, three of women among them, had been brought to the hospital. He said the hospital had admitted 22 injured passengers, one of whom later died. Of the injured, 19 were employees of government
departments, he said. According to Superintendent of Police, Shafiullah Khan, the powerful blast reduced the bus to complete wreck.

One of the passengers who could not locate his mother or brother made the following statement about the blast that took place, “The bus was crowded and I was standing in the middle. I recognised my brother from his screams in the LRH ward.”      

According to a junior clerk in the provincial auditor general’s office, he had asked the driver of the bus to stop near a mosque so that he could offer his Friday prayers when the explosion took place.

CSP Shafiullah Khan, confirming it was a remote-controlled blast, said bus of secretariat employees was targeted by the militants. He said investigation was underway and soon the culprits would be arrested. Meanwhile, Provincial Information Minister Mian
Iftikhar Hussain visited Lady Reading Hospital and condemned the blast in strongest words. He said terrorists were showing their real image to the public by targeting the innocent people. He said they were spreading fear and panic among the masses but through
such mean tactics they would not succeed in their aims.

Peshawar, capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, has suffered scores of bomb attacks over the past five years, but the level of violence had fallen in recent months.

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