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Taliban militants bombed a power line in Peshawar late Thursday, hours after a first attack, plunging more than half the northwestern Pakistani city in darkness, officials said.
Militants planted four bombs next to four electricity pylons close to the Jaba Mill area of the city and detonated them by remote control, Shaukat Afzal, a spokesman for the state-owned water and power supply company told AFP.
‘Miscreants bombed another 500 kilovolt electricity transmission line in the Dala Zak road on the outskirts of Peshawar, said police official Anwar Shah. Militants had earlier launched a similar attack on four pylons in Urmur, on the outskirts of Peshawar before dawn, Afzal told AFP. The blast destroyed the grid station and left half the city without power, he said. |