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| Explosion in passenger van kills six in Kohat |
| 2014-10-05 |
| They never get bored with that stuff, do they? Same headline as yesterday, different town. [DAWN] PESHAWAR: Six people were killed and several injured in an kaboom that took place in a passenger van in Kohat’s 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. Chowk area on Saturday. Police confirmed the corpse count, adding that at least 13 others were also injured in the blast which damaged two vehicles. “The blast occurred at a small bus stop in Kohat city. At least two vehicles were damaged in the kaboom,” Salim Khan Marwat, district police chief in Kohat, told AFP. “The kaboom has left six people dead and 17 injured,” he added. Fazal Khaliq, head of the emergency department at Kohat's main government hospital, also confirmed the toll. The kaboom occurred along a roadside, police said, adding that it appeared to have been caused by an improvised bomb. No group has grabbed credit for the blast as yet. |
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