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| Six die in blast at Kohat taxi stand |
| 2014-10-06 |
| [DAWN] Six people were killed and 17 others injured in a remote-controlled blast at a taxi stand here on Saturday, officials said. An improvised bomb containing ball bearings and weighing about three kilograms was kept in a ghee tin, they said, adding that murderous Moslems left the tin near a wall of the taxi stand at 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. Mor. The Suzuki pick-up stand is mainly used by residents of Shia-dominated villages along the Hangu Road. The blast occurred at around 11am, killing six people and injuring 17 others. The bodies and the injured were taken to the nearby Liaquat Memorial Hospital. Three vehicles parked at the stand were damaged by the impact of the kaboom and traffic on Hangu Road and Peshawar Road remained suspended for quite some time. Police cordoned off the scene of the kaboom and called in the bomb disposal squad personnel who inspected the devastation and confirmed the IED had been planted in the ghee tin. The local administration declared emergency at all hospitals in Kohat after the blast. Bodies were handed over to relatives and later buried in Ustarzai, Alizai, Kachai and Chakarkot villages. No group grabbed credit for the bomb kaboom. The dear departed were identified as Shabbir Ali, Qambar Abbas, Mehtab Hussain, Taimoor, Syed Shahzain Hussain and Emman. The injured were Mohammad Hussain, Sajid Fareed, Shahzia, Mudassir, Shahan Hussain, Nusrat Hussain, Hassan Jan, Amir Hamza, Tahir Ali, Said Mohammad, Roohullah, Mohammad Hussain, Qasim, Sajid Ali, Ali Ghulam Mustafa, Salma and Baz Mohammad. The city police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified murderous Moslems under sections 302, 324 and 427 and Explosives Act and Anti-Terrorism Act. Fourteen people were killed and 16 injured when a bomb went off at the same place on Feb 23, 2014. AFP adds: Fazal Khaliq, head of the emergency department at Kohat's main government hospital, confirmed the corpse count. It is the second attack on a passenger vehicle to hit northwest Pakistain in a week. On Thursday, a kaboom on a coach in Peshawar killed at least seven people and maimed another six. |
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