A powerful bomb ripped through a video shop in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding three, police said. Local police chief Abdul Rauf said the attack happened in the town of Kohat, about 45 miles south of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan. He said the dead and injured were taken to a hospital. The blast also damaged some nearby video and CD stores. The latest attack came weeks after suspected militants sent letters to shop owners in Kohat and elsewhere in the region, warning them to close their businesses.
Earlier Wednesday, militants also blew up two dozen video and music stalls on a market in the northwestern town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan region, part of an ethnic Pashtun tribal belt in northwest Pakistan that has never come under the control of any government. No injuries were reported. "About 25 masked militants came at about 1:30 a.m planted explosives and blew up the entire market," said Mohammad Sakhi, who runs a workshop next to the market. The stalls offered pirated Indian and Hollywood films as well as music discs of Pashtun folk music. Some kept more racy movies under the counter, a resident said. |