Six injured as blast hits Peshawar's Kalibari area

The teams have arrived at the scene and are shifting the injured to nearby hospital.

PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – At least six people including two women sustained severe wounds as a powerful blast hit Peshawar’s Kalibari area on Saturday morning.

Officers said a 10 kilogramme improvised explosive device (IED) was fitted to a car parked in the Saddar area of the city. "It was an IED explosion and the explosive material was fitted inside the vehicle," Peshawar city police chief Qazi Jamil-ur-Rehman told.

"All of the vehicle had blown up and only (its) engine part remained intact," said local bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik. The explosion has also caused damage to the nearby buildings.

Security forces and bomb disposal squad (BDS) have cordoned off the entire area and launched a search operation. Pakistan has been battling militant groups in the Peshawar region since 2004 and multiple military operations have been carried out in the tribal areas neighbouring the city.

Security in Peshawar improved in the region in recent years, though low-level attacks are still carried out with devastating regularity.