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India-Pakistan
Bomb targeting police van kills constable, injures 39 in Charsadda
2014-04-23
[BRECORDER] A powerful bomb in cycle of violence targeting a police van on Mardan-Charsadda Road went kaboom! on Tuesday morning in Charsadda district, killing a police constable and injuring 39 others.

Police constable, Nasir Khan son of Azam Khan, resident of Sherpao Charssada district, who sustained critical wounds expired at Lady Reading Hospital 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.
while 39 injured are being treated in Peshawar and Charsadda hospitals.

According to Charsadda police front man, the injured also included a woman Jan Bibi and her son Owais Khan son of Torab Khan of Charsadda.

According to details, the gory incident occurred on Charsadda-Nowshera Road near Farooq Azam chowk where a police van en-route to Police Lines came under attack.

People in large number were busy in shopping in bazaar near Farooq Azam Chowk when a huge kaboom occurred, killing policeman Nasir Khan and injuring 39 others including 12 coppers. The injured coppers are Feroz, Asad, Akhtar, Hanif, Liaquat, Driver Sartaj, Ilyas, Jan Muhammad, Asad Jan, Farman, Kaleem and Abdullah sustained injuries.

As many as eleven injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar where police tailor Nasir Ali departed this vale of tears. Emergency has been enforced in hospitals LRH and DHQ Hospital Charsadda.
Posted by:Fred

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