According to police, the blast took place near a food distribution point of the World Food Programme.
District Police Officer (DPO) Mohammad Hussain confirmed 15 people were killed. The bomb was planted in an abandoned car parked in the vicinity of the food distribution point and the camp's administration office. Several vehicles were destroyed.
Quoting the bomb disposal squad, the DPO said it was a time device carrying about 35kg of explosives.
Soon after the blast, police and rescuers cordoned off the area. The dead and the injured were taken to Lady Reading Hospital in
Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
and Shaheed Rashid Hussain Memorial Hospital in Pabbi.
TV channels quoted Ehsanullah Ehsan, front man for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, as saying that the Taliban were not involved in the attack.
The DPO said people displaced from Akakhel, Bara and Khyber Agency
lived in the camp. He said the attack might have been carried out by the banned Lashkar-e-Islam turban group led by Mangal Bagh...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
Police said four suspects were tossed into the calaboose and they were being interrogated.
A woman working for a local non-governmental organization was among the dead.
An official of the International Red Islamic Thingy told Dawn that all organizations working in the Jalozai camp had suspended their work.