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| 24 wounded in Peshawar Cantt bomb blast |
| 2007-09-09 |
| At least 24 people were injured when a time bomb planted in a car exploded within the limits of the East Cantonment police station on Saturday at around 11.15am, police said. Peshawar police chief Abdul Majeed Marwat told Daily Times the device weighed 10 to 12 kg and injured nearly 24 people, most of them minors. He said that police would use the footage of closed circuit cameras installed in the area during investigations. The bomb was fitted in a car that was parked on the main road outside the Cantonment plaza. The blast shattered the windows of nearby buildings including Cantonment plaza, Green Shadi Hall, Abn Amro Bank and Frontier Arcade, while three cars were gutted and seven others damaged in the incident. Muhammad Arif, a vendor, said that the car was parked there for some time and that the blast was so powerful that two nearby parked vehicles had jumped up and two people had fallen to the ground. NWFP Information Minister Asif Iqbal Daudzai told Daily Times that it was a timed device and luckily there had been no casualties. “It was the continuation of the series of bomb blasts across the country,” he said adding that the gravely injured would be given Rs 50,000 each and those with minor injuries would get Rs 25,000 each under a provincial government package announced for the victims. Netherlands Development Cooperation Minister Bert Koenders was also in Peshawar at the time of the blast. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast. |
| Posted by:Fred |