Blasts in KP leave nineteen injured

Published March 30, 2014
-File Photo
-File Photo

PESHAWAR: Nineteen people were injured on Sunday after two blasts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Sixteen people were injured in a blast near Bara Qadeem area of Sarband near the border of Khyber Agency.

Two of the injured are said to be in a critical condition.

Another blast in front of a house in Zargarabad area of Peshawar also left three people injured, including two women and a child.

According to the police, the first blast occurred in an auto-workshop near the Bara Qadeem checkpost but its nature has not yet been confirmed.

In the aftermath the blast rescue teams rushed to the scene of the incident.

The second blast took place in front of a house.

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