Seven Killed, Several Injured In Blast Near Peshawar Checkpost
PESHAWAR: At least seven people including a child were killed and as many as 16 injured Tuesday morning when a bomb exploded close to a security check-post near Karkhano Market area in Peshawar, police said.
A large contingent of police and security personnel had reached the location on Jamrud Road, the main highway that links Peshawar to Jamrud in the tribal areas.
The bodies and injured were taken to the nearby Hayatabad Medical Complex, while additional police force was dispatched to the site of the blast. According to sources, the President of the FATA Journalists Union Mehboob Shah Afridi was also killed in the explosion.
Officials said the exact nature of the blast could not yet be ascertained.
