PESHAWAR: A bomb killed at least five people and wounded 28 others at a market selling CDs in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar on Monday, officials said.
“We have received five bodies and 28 wounded people from the blast site,” Doctor Rahim Jan, who works at Peshawar's main government hospital, told AFP, adding that there was one woman among the dead.
Provincial government minister Bashir Bilour confirmed the death toll and told AFP at the hospital that police had informed him that the bomb was probably planted in a motorcycle.
Peshawar police chief Imtiaz Altaf told reporters at the scene of the blast that “the target was the CD market.”
Jalalud Din, a 35-year-old lawyer, who received head injuries from the blast, said he was buying sweets for his children.
“There was a huge blast as I was buying candies for my kids. I lost consciousness after my head struck a wall,” Din said.
Earlier Monday, a Taliban suicide car bomber flattened the house of a senior counter-terrorism police officer in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, killing eight people including six policemen.
Nearly 4,700 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked networks based in the country's northwestern tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
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