PESHAWAR: At least seven people were killed and 30 more were injured after a blast went off in Peshawar on Friday.
‘Seven people have died and 35 are wounded,’ Sahib Zada Anis, head of the northwestern city’s administration, told reporters.
Most of them were civilians, he added.
A doctor at the city’s main Lady Reading Hospital confirmed the casualties.
A military spokesman told Reuters that a building of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was the possible target of the bomb attack.
The building was heavily damaged in the blast, with huge clouds of smoke spewing into the sky and debris littering the ground, witnesses said.
The road was littered with debris and tree trunks ripped off by the force of the explosion.
A security official at the scene said it was a bomb blast, but the nature of the attack was not immediately clear.
An AFP reporter saw at three bodies lying on the ground, but soldiers opened fire into the air preventing other people from approaching until army vehicles arrived on the spot and cordoned off the area.
Television footage showed scenes of panic at one hospital, with blood-stained men being admitted and relatives starting to gather outside.
‘It was the biggest explosion I’ve ever heard,’ said city resident Asad Ali.
The blast early Friday badly damaged much of the three-story building and was heard throughout the city. —Agencies/DawnNews
0 comments:
Post a Comment