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| Five killed in Peshawar suicide attack on FC convoy |
| 2014-09-25 |
| [DAWN] A suicide kaboom targeting a senior military official killed at least five people in a 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. Cantonment area on Tuesday. The jacket wallah blew up his explosives-laden vehicle on Sher Shah Suri Road, not far from the Governor House, Frontier Constabulary headquarters, the Cantonment railway station and the Peshawar Press Club. "The moving vehicle targeted the convoy of Frontier Corps DIG Brigadier Khalid Javaid who narrowly escaped with a few injuries. An FC soldier, a woman and a passerby were killed on the spot," the Capital City Police Officer of Peshawar, Ijaz Ahmed Khan said. Two others died in hospital. The blast destroyed three military vehicles, a rickshaw and a cycle of violence and damaged several cars on the busy thoroughfare. |
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