Blast near KFC in Pakistan kills two

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At least two people have been killed in an explosion near a KFC fast food restaurant in Peshawar, north-western Pakistan.

Published: 9:03AM GMT 05 Dec 2009

The blast took place a day after militants killed dozens at a mosque near the country's military headquarters in Rawalpindi.

Sahibzada Anis, a senior local government official in Peshawar, said after Saturday's attack: "The initial investigation suggests it was a car bomb blast in which two people were killed and nine wounded."

Pakistan's army, which heavily supported militant groups in their war against the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, now faces a stubborn Taliban insurgency on its own soil and mounting US pressure to root out Islamist fighters in tribal border areas.

A senior police officer, Shafqat Alam, said the Peshawar blast may have been accidental, possibly ignited by paint stored in a shop.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the foreign minister, condemned the latest wave of violence and said Pakistan's will would not be broken.

"Such reprehensible acts can never defeat our national resolve to fight out terrorism and militancy," he said in a statement.

On Friday night, up to 40 militants attacked an army checkpoint, killing one soldier, a security official said.

Soldiers at the checkpoint on a bridge in Wana, the main town in the Islamist bastion of South Waziristan, retaliated after coming under fire, said the official.

Link : Blast near KFC in Pakistan kills two - Telegraph

 

[ejaz007]

This doest not seem to be the work of terrorists rathert an accident otherwise casualties would have been much higher considering that the building is used for both commercial and residential use.