...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 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 Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...’s Warsak Road, police and hospital officials said.
According to the police, the blast took place due to a kaboom of explosives.
The injured were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital where two children are said to be at death's door. The ages of the children are between 7 to 10 years, the hospital’s spokesperson said.
SSP Operations Kashif Aftab Abbasi said the Machnigate Police Station’s mobile vehicle was on routine patrol when the bomb went
kaboom!.
"As soon as the police mobile passed by, the blast occurred three seconds later. The bully boyz wanted to target the police vehicle," he said, speaking with Geo News.
The police official said no arrests have been made yet, but the involved network will be apprehended soon.
Abbasi added that the CCTV footage of the earth-shattering kaboom is being examined.
Speaking with Geo News, Superintendent Police Arshad Khan — who was present at the incident — said the blast took place around 9:10am and the explosives were planted at the roadside.
The explosives used in the blast weighed 4kg and were hidden in a cement block on the roadside, he said.
Khan added that the police have started a search operation in the surrounding areas. "The element of extortion is also being considered in the blast."
"It would be premature to say who was the target," SP Arshad Khan said speaking with journalists.
Following the earth-shattering kaboom, police and Rescue 1122 teams rushed to the site of the incident in the Babu Garhi area in Peshawar.
Rescue officials told Geo News that the glass of two vehicles and nearby buildings was broken due to the intensity of the earth-shattering kaboom.
Mayor Metropolitan Zubair Ali told journalists that the earth-shattering kaboom near a school was an attempt to disturb peace and order.
"The explosion near educational institutions is unfortunate."