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7 injured in bomb blast in Pakistan's NW Nowshera district
At least seven people including three children were injured on Tuesday in a bomb blast that hit Pakistan's northwestern district of Nowshera, local sources said.
According to the sources, the blast took place at about 10:09 a. m. local time near the house of Main Iftikhar Hussain, the Information Minister of Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the Pabbi area of the Nowshera.
The explosives material was fixed in a sewerage pipeline alongside the road and was detonated with a remote controlled device, the police said.
The explosion injured three children and four other people including a policeman who was on duty near the minister's house.
The police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the injured to the Lady Reading Hospital in the provincial capital of Peshawar.
According to the local media reports, it might be an attempt to threaten the minister as he will address a public gathering in the afternoon in Pabbi, a town between Nowshera city and Peshawar.
No group or militant organization claimed responsibility for the blast yet.
Hussain, who is the main leader of provincially ruling Awami National Party (ANP), has been a strong critic of Pakistani Taliban.
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/world-news/31294-pakistan-bomb-kills-2-after-politician-targeted.html
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 12, 2013 (AFP) - A remote-controlled bomb targeting police killed two people in northwest Pakistan Tuesday, police said, hours after a blast near the home of a prominent provincial minister.
The bomb exploded near a police van carrying six people outside the main police station in the town of Bannu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, district police chief Nisar Ahmed Tanoli told AFP.
Bannu is close to the lawless tribal area along the Afghan border where Taliban and other militants have hideouts.
An earlier blast in the town of Pabbi, just 60 metres (200 feet) from the home of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, wounded six people.
Pakistan is due to hold a general election some time in May but concerns about poll security have grown amid a series of attacks, particularly after a series of bombings targeting minority Shiite Muslims killed at least 250 people.
Tanoli said the Bannu device contained 2 kg (4 lbs) of explosives and completely destroyed the police van.
“It was a remote-controlled bomb, planted on a motorbike parked outside the police station,” he said, adding that the blast killed two civilian passersby.
Police constable Mohammad Shiraz told AFP: “We were six people in the van which was on routine patrol in the city. A sudden blast ripped through the van and all of us were wounded.”Doctor Mahmood Jan at Bannu's hospital confirmed the death toll and said medics had received 14 wounded.
Hussain, a member of the province's ruling Awami National Party (ANP) whose son was killed by Taliban militants, was 25 km (15 miles) away in Peshawar at the time of the blast near his home, police said.
At least seven people including three children were injured on Tuesday in a bomb blast that hit Pakistan's northwestern district of Nowshera, local sources said.
According to the sources, the blast took place at about 10:09 a. m. local time near the house of Main Iftikhar Hussain, the Information Minister of Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the Pabbi area of the Nowshera.
The explosives material was fixed in a sewerage pipeline alongside the road and was detonated with a remote controlled device, the police said.
The explosion injured three children and four other people including a policeman who was on duty near the minister's house.
The police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the injured to the Lady Reading Hospital in the provincial capital of Peshawar.
According to the local media reports, it might be an attempt to threaten the minister as he will address a public gathering in the afternoon in Pabbi, a town between Nowshera city and Peshawar.
No group or militant organization claimed responsibility for the blast yet.
Hussain, who is the main leader of provincially ruling Awami National Party (ANP), has been a strong critic of Pakistani Taliban.
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/world-news/31294-pakistan-bomb-kills-2-after-politician-targeted.html
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 12, 2013 (AFP) - A remote-controlled bomb targeting police killed two people in northwest Pakistan Tuesday, police said, hours after a blast near the home of a prominent provincial minister.
The bomb exploded near a police van carrying six people outside the main police station in the town of Bannu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, district police chief Nisar Ahmed Tanoli told AFP.
Bannu is close to the lawless tribal area along the Afghan border where Taliban and other militants have hideouts.
An earlier blast in the town of Pabbi, just 60 metres (200 feet) from the home of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, wounded six people.
Pakistan is due to hold a general election some time in May but concerns about poll security have grown amid a series of attacks, particularly after a series of bombings targeting minority Shiite Muslims killed at least 250 people.
Tanoli said the Bannu device contained 2 kg (4 lbs) of explosives and completely destroyed the police van.
“It was a remote-controlled bomb, planted on a motorbike parked outside the police station,” he said, adding that the blast killed two civilian passersby.
Police constable Mohammad Shiraz told AFP: “We were six people in the van which was on routine patrol in the city. A sudden blast ripped through the van and all of us were wounded.”Doctor Mahmood Jan at Bannu's hospital confirmed the death toll and said medics had received 14 wounded.
Hussain, a member of the province's ruling Awami National Party (ANP) whose son was killed by Taliban militants, was 25 km (15 miles) away in Peshawar at the time of the blast near his home, police said.
