PESHAWAR: Two people were killed and about a dozen wounded when a motorbike bomb exploded in Peshawar late Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.The low intensity bomb was detonated by a remote control device in the Imamia Colony on GT Road, senior police official Khalid Mahmood Hamdani said. “It was a remote-controlled device planted on a motorbike which went off in a street,” Hamdani told AFP. Two people were killed and about a dozen others were wounded, he said adding that the blast partially damaged three nearby houses.
The injured were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital where at least one was described to be in a critical condition. A large number of relatives of the dead and injured reached the hospital. Doctor Jamil Shah, spokesman for the city’s Lady Reading Hospital, confirmed the toll. “We received two bodies and 11 injured, two of them are in critical condition,” he said. The device carried about four kilogrammes of explosives, chief of the city’s Bomb Disposal Squad, Shafqat Malik told AFP. The bomb was planted on a motorbike, he said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan has strongly condemned the blast and directed authorities concerned to provide the best available medical assistance to those injured in the blast.