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Accidental car boom in Peshawar kills six
 [DAWN] At least six people were killed and eight injured Thursday when a bomb went kaboom!in a vehicle at a car workshop on the outskirts of 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. , police officials said. According to SP Peshawar Rahim Shah, the blast completely destroyed the white Suzuki Alto parked inside the car workshop near Scheme Chowk area of the lovely provincial capital. Shah said bomb disposal experts estimated that around 25 to 30 kilograms of kaboom were fitted inside the car when it went kaboom!. Television footage showed that several vehicles were destroyed by the kaboom and rescue workers and coppers searching through the rubble. The blast created a crater more than seven feet wide and two feet deep at the site of the kaboom. SP Shah said that there was a possibility that the car was being fitted with an improvised bomb and went kaboom!prematurely. He, however, said that BDS experts were still carrying out their investigation. The injured were taken to the Lady Reading Hospital for emergency treatment. According to officials at the LRH, six bodies had been brought to the hospital. A front man for the government-run hospital said two of the inured were at death's door. No myrmidon group has so far grabbed credit for the blast, which follows a recent surge in Taliban violence targeting the military. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-24 |
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