Another blast in Peshawar: Qissa Khwani Bazar this time

[Justin Joseph]

At least 10 dead in blast during rally in northwestern Pakistan

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) — At least ten people have been killed and others have been injured after a powerful explosion during a rally in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, according to local television reports.

Private TV channel Express News reported that at least 10 people had been killed in the blast that happened during a rally near Kabli police station. An emergency has been declared at the Lady Reading Hospital, which is close to the scene.

Further details were not immediately available.

Earlier on Monday, a car bomb explosion outside the Police Public School in Peshawar killed a boy and injured eleven others, mostly students at the school. The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad ’strongly condemned’ the attack. “The deliberate targeting of children makes this terrorist attack particularly reprehensible,” said Richard Snelsire, a spokesman for the Embassy. “We extend our condolences to the victims’ families and friends and hope for the speedy recovery of those injured.”

At least 10 dead in blast during rally in northwestern Pakistan

 

[Areesh]

Looks like ANP government is only competent to change the name of the province.

 

[Awesome]

A lot of 4-6 year olds have been killed.

 

[karan.1970]

Dawn Says over 24 dead....

DAWN.COM | Metropolitan | Bombs at market, school kill 24 in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: At least 24 people including a child and police officials were killed Monday in bombings hours apart at a high school and a crowded market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said.

The attacks take the number of people killed in bombings in Pakistan's troubled northwest to 73 in three days, after weekend suicide strikes bearing the hallmarks of Taliban militants left 49 people dead in the city of Kohat.

As dusk fell Monday at Peshawar's bustling Qissa Khawani Bazaar, a suicide bomber walked into the crowd and detonated explosives.

An AFP reporter at the scene saw scattered shoes, human limbs and destroyed cars.

“Twenty-three people were killed including three police officials. At least 27 people have been admitted to the hospital,” senior police official Imran Kishwar told AFP. Senior provincial minister Bashir Bilour confirmed the toll.

Bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik told reporters that the explosion was caused by a bomber wearing a vest packed with six to eight kilogrammes (13 to 17 pounds) of explosives and pellets and ball-bearings.

“We have recovered the head and legs of the attacker,” he said.

The blast struck soon after protesters rallying against soaring inflation and crippling power shortages had left the area, police officials said.

It also came hours after an eight-year-old boy was killed and at least ten people were injured in a bombing outside a high school in Peshawar.

The latter explosion, in Boharh Bazaar, slightly damaged a parked car and two shops, an AFP reporter at the scene said, while local television stations showed footage of school text books scattered outside the gates of the building.

“It was an IED (improvised explosive device) planted near a shop. It was a timed device,” senior police official Mohammad Karim Khan told AFP.

“Schoolchildren were the target.”Doctor Khizer Hayat, chief of the Khyber Teaching Hospital, said the victim was an eight-year-old boy. Another police official, Sher Akbar Khan, said the bomb targetted the Police Public School at the end of the school day.

Police officials did not say who had planted the bomb in the city plagued by Taliban attacks.—AFP

 

[Comet]

R.I.P the dead. A tragic incident.

 

[jha]

Blast in Pehsawar’s Qissa Khwani Bazar, several dead – GEO NEWS

 

[karan.1970]

The count has crossed 25..
DAWN.COM | Metropolitan | Bombs at market, school kill 24 in Peshawar

 

[Frankenstein]

RIP to the victims, dame is it even gona stop??

 

[Frankenstein]

If I am not wrong Qissa Khwani Bazar is known for its delicious food

 

[Ecstacy]

a sad news indeed

 

[Mujahid]

Jamaat-e-Islami blames US for suicide bombing

PESHAWAR: A politician whose party lost several members in a suicide attack blamed Pakistan's alliance with the US for the violence and urged Islamabad on Tuesday to break ranks in the war on terror.

The comments showed the depth of anti-Americanism in Pakistan, whose support Washington considers key to stabilizing neighboring Afghanistan. In the past three days, attacks in Pakistan have killed some 74 people, signaling a potential new wave of violence.

The Jamaat-e-Islami party was hit Monday when a suicide bomber apparently targeted police watching over a rally of the group. Many of the 24 dead and 45 wounded were party loyalists, while two were officers, police official Khan Abbas said Tuesday.

Although authorities blamed the Taliban in the immediate aftermath of the attack in Peshawar, the Islamic party's leaders have declined to do so, instead alleging that the CIA or Indian intelligence were behind it.

''It is because we have brought America's war to our own country,'' Sirajul Haq, a provincial party leader, said Tuesday in Peshawar after attending funerals for some of the victims. ''Still, there is time to end this alliance with America'' to avoid more bloodshed.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Jamaat-e-Islami blames US for suicide bombing