Suicide attack kills one, injures 14 in Pakistan's Peshawar: Police
One person was killed and 14 others including police were injured Thursday in a grenade and suicide bomb attack targeting security forces in Pakistan's Peshawar city, police said.
By Agencies |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: One person was killed and 14 others including police were injured Thursday in a grenade and suicide bomb attack targeting security forces in Pakistan's Peshawar city, police said.
The attack happened late Thursday in a northern suburb of Peshawar, a northwestern city still reeling from a commando-style suicide bombing blamed on Taliban militants on a luxury hotel Tuesday, which killed at least nine people.
Senior Peshawar police officer Mohammad Ejaz said that an attacker threw a hand grenade at a police van near a checkpoint.
"When police gathered a suicide bomber blew himself up. One civilian was killed. Fourteen people were injured, eight of them policemen," he said.
Another local police officer, Mohammad Nisar, said two civilians and two policeman were in critical condition, and body parts of the suicide attacker were recovered and sent to a hospital.
Pakistan has recently been hit by a string of Taliban-related bomb blasts as fears grow that Islamist extremists are exacting revenge for a six-week military offensive against them in three northwest districts.
The attack happened late Thursday in a northern suburb of Peshawar, a northwestern city still reeling from a commando-style suicide bombing blamed on Taliban militants on a luxury hotel Tuesday, which killed at least nine people.
Senior Peshawar police officer Mohammad Ejaz said that an attacker threw a hand grenade at a police van near a checkpoint.
"When police gathered a suicide bomber blew himself up. One civilian was killed. Fourteen people were injured, eight of them policemen," he said.
Another local police officer, Mohammad Nisar, said two civilians and two policeman were in critical condition, and body parts of the suicide attacker were recovered and sent to a hospital.
Pakistan has recently been hit by a string of Taliban-related bomb blasts as fears grow that Islamist extremists are exacting revenge for a six-week military offensive against them in three northwest districts.
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