[DAWN] Eight passengers including children and women were maimed when an improvised bomb went off on Kohat Road on Friday.The passengers were onboard a coach that was going to Kohat from 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.
An official of Badhber cop shoppe told Dawn that actual target of the terrorist act was a police van, which had just passed through the site.
The blast damaged the passenger coach, he added.
Bilal Faizi, a spokesperson for Rescue 1122, said that the seriously injured passengers were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital. The people, who sustained minor wounds, were taken to City Hospital, he added.
The injured passengers, who were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital, include Noor Badshah, 20; Shabeena, 29; Salman, 14; Janas Khan, 30 and Zubair, 25. Those, who were taken to City Hospital, include Sana, Farida and Zainab.
Police said that a search operation was launched in the area to arrest the terrorists. "We are still in search of the terrorists," an official said. He added that a case against unidentified turbans was registered at Badhber cop shoppe.