One person was killed and two were injured when a powerful time bomb, planted in a car, went off in a parking area outside Peshawar Airport on Tuesday. Bomb disposal squad officials said that the bomb weighed around two kilograms. It completely destroyed the car it was planted in, in addition to razing the boundary wall of Risalla Lane of the Pakistan Army ground. The deceased was identified as Naveed from Buner, a bus conductor, while the injured included Siraj Mohammad of Regi, an employee of the car parking contractor, and Anwar Zaib Bakht of Swat, an airport employee. The explosion at 7:10am also damaged six other vehicles. After the blast, police, bomb disposal squad and intelligence officials rushed to the site and cordoned off the area.
The injured Siraj told reporters that smoke and dust covered the entire area after the blast and that he did not see anything as he fell unconscious. An eyewitness said that he had parked his car in the parking area at 6:15am and that there was no other car there at the time. He said he was sleeping in his car when the bomb went off. A police official said that no security measures had been taken for the parking area of the cantonment board outside Peshawar Airport.