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| Blast in Rickshaw Kills Three in NW Pakistan |
| 2014-01-01 |
| [An Nahar] An kaboom destroyed an auto rickshaw Tuesday killing at least three people and wounding four others in the restive northwestern Pak city of 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. , officials said. The blast occurred at Chamkani, a suburb of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province which borders Afghanistan and has been a target of Taliban suicide kabooms and bombings. "At least three people were killed in an kaboom in a rickshaw near a police check point," local police official Shaukat Ali told AFP. One of the victims appeared to be of Uzbek origin, Ali said, referring to Central Asian snuffies among Taliban ranks. "According to bomb disposal squad's initial report the kaboom may have been caused by the explosives being transported or planted in the rickshaw," he added. Ali said that two bodies were reduced to small pieces by the kaboom. Senior police official Rahim Shah confirmed the blast and casualties, and said that police were investigating. |
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