Seven killed, 37 injured in two bomb attacks in Peshawar

Peshawar, August 11, 2011 (PPI): At least seven persons were killed and 37 others sustained injuries in two bomb attacks - one by a female suicide and other one planted in a handcart, both targeted police on Thursday. The first attack took place at Lahori Gate area targeting first a police van and second one at a police check post.

“This was a female suicide bomber aged around 17 or 18 who threw a hand grenade on the police check post, 20 meters away from the site of the first blast, and then blew herself up,” a police official said.

“Her vest did not explode completely. She was killed along with another woman,” he said.

“The other woman is over 60 years of age. Her face is completely disfigured and beyond identification. Her body has no sign of wearing a suicide vest. She could be just a passerby,” a hospital spokesman said.

He said 16 people were admitted with injuries after the second blast, including a 10-year boy.

Police official confirmed that the other woman was a passerby and had no link to the woman, believed to have been around 17 years old.

Police said five officers and a child were killed earlier when a bomb hidden in a handcart on the roadside, tore through a passing police van carrying 20 personnel at 7.10am. Twenty-one other people were wounded in the attack.