Suicide blast in Peshawar kills nine, injures 50
The blast took place outside a hotel in Koocha Risaldar area of Qissa Khawani bazaar.
PESAHWAR (Dunya News) – At least nine persons died and dozens of others injured in a suicide blast in Koocha Risaldar area of Qissa Khawani Bazar on Tuesday.
According to police, a suicide bomber blew himself up in Pak Hotel in Koocha Risaldar killing eight persons and injuring several others including women and children. Rescue teams rushed to the scene and started shifting the wounded to hospital.
An emergency has been declared in Lady Reading Hospital while the management of the hospital has appealed the citizens to donate blood to the wounded.
Law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area and started search operation. The blast caused damage to the building of hotel and windowpanes of nearby shops.
SSP City Faisal Mukhtar said that head and some other body parts of the suicide bomber were found from the scene.
President Mamnoon Hussain, PM Nawaz Sharif, MQM chief Altaf Hussain, Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak have strongly condemned the blast.
Talking to Dunya News, a grieved mother of a blast victim requested the banned TTP to stop targeting innocent people in Peshawar as they were Pakhtun brethren while she urged the government to hold peace talks with Taliban immediately for restoration of peace in Pakistan.
It is to mention here that six persons were killed and several others injured in a blast in same area on Sunday. The explosion occurred when around 100 people were watching a Pashtu film in Picture House Cinema Qissa Khawani Bazar.
Meanwhile, an explosion at rail track overturned four and derailed 11 bogies of Night Coach near Landhi railway station in Karachi on Tuesday.
These incidents occurred when the negotiation committees of the government and banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are engaged in a process of peace talks.
The government and the Taliban have formed negotiation committees to discuss the proposed process of peace talks.
