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| Three wounded in bombing outside Peshawar minister's house |
| 2011-05-09 |
[Dawn] A bomb went kaboom!Sunday outside the home of a provincial minister in the northwestern Pak city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, with initial reports saying three people were maimed, police said. The bomb detonated near the residence of agriculture minister Arbab Ayub Jan, who said the kaboom took place just after visitors to his house had left by car. Three of the guests were maimed. "It was a remote-controlled device planted under a billboard near my house," Jan told AFP by telephone. "Perhaps those responsible thought I was in the car." Senior police officer Mohammad Ejaz told AFP, "We have rushed teams to find out details. Initial reports say that three people were maimed." The minister belongs to the secular Awami National Party (ANP) whose leaders have in the past been the targets of bully boy attacks. The ANP leads the government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, of which Peshawar is the capital. |
| Posted by:Fred |