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Bomb kills two in Peshawar electricity tower |
2013-01-05 |
[Dawn] A bomb planted at an electricity tower on Friday killed two passers-by in Pakistain's northwestern city 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 said. The explosive attached with a time device went kaboom!when the victims were close to the electricity tower in the Badh Bher area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, which borders Afghanistan. "Two kilograms of explosives were used for the blast which killed two people," Javed Khan, a local police official told AFP. The electricity tower was also damaged as a result of the blast. |
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