| A blast at the Agency Headquarters Hospital here injured clerk Khaista Muhammad on Friday, officials said. The Khasadar force cordoned off the scene soon after the incident. “The hospital staff had gone to offer Friday prayers when the incident occurred,” a hospital official said, adding that the bomb exploded at around 1pm in the hospital’s second floor –in the middle of the offices of medical superintendent and NGO Save the Children US. The principal officer of the US Consulate in Peshawar inaugurated the Save the Children, US office at the hospital on April 26, the official said. MS Zar Alam Shinwari told Daily Times that the bomb had been planted in the NGO’s office. |