Four killed in blast on Mall Road in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Two suicide bombers struck near an army and police checkpoint in Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding about 11 more, officials said.
The blast struck Peshawar's busy Mall Road, home to government offices, banks and private companies, in an army cantonment area.
'Four people were killed and more than 10 injured.' Sahibzada Mohammad Anis, the top administrative official for Peshawar, told AFP.
'There is one policeman and three passers-by among the dead,' Mohammad Karim Khan, a senior police officer, told AFP.
According to the NWFP Senior Minister, Bashir Bilour, the blast on Peshawar's Mall Road was a suicide attack. He added that not one, but two suicide bombers carried out the deadly attack.
'We will never bow down to them, we will continue our fight till this curse is completely eliminated,' Bilour told reporters.
The injured have been shifted to Lady Reading Hospital.
The area of Peshawar where the attack took place is considered particularly sensetive as there are several key army installations located in the neighbourhood.
Administration officials said more than 10 people were wounded and witnesses said they saw injured people lying bloodied on the ground under a thick cloud of smoke that spewed into the sky after the blast.
'I can see smoke and injured people lying on the ground,' witness Shahid Khan, who works for a local advertising agency, told AFP by telephone.
According to the bomb disposal squad, about eight to 10kg of explosives were used in the attack.
The attack came two days after a teenage suicide bomber attacked a Pakistan journalists' club in Peshawar, killing three people in an unprecedented assault on the media.
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