5 killed, 26 injured in suicide blast in Pakistan's Peshawar

PESHAWAR. December 24. KAZINFORM At least five persons were killed and 26 others serious injured in a suicide bomb blast Thursday in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
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 According to police, it was a suicide blast in which five persons including one police official were killed.

    The injured were shifted to the Lady Reading hospital(LRH) and Combined Military hospital (CMH) for medical treatment, where five of them are in critical condition and the death tolls may rise.

    The target of the bomber was not clear because that is one of the busiest areas of Peshawar, capital of the North West Frontier Province.

    However Peshawar police officer Liaquat Ali Khan said that the aim of the suicide bombing was the Pakistan International Airlines(PIA) building.

    NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Bilour visited the blast site and confirmed that it was a suicide attack, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.

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