PESHAWAR: Several people were injured and a child was killed when a blast took place in Peshawar’s Gulshan Rehman Colony on Thursday, DawnNews reported.

Preliminary reports suggest the attack was carried out by a car bomb, Peshawar’s CCPO Liaquat Ali told DawnNews.

The CCPO said that a car packed with explosives was parked at the scene, and that it was later detonated by remote control.

Police cordoned off the area and the injured were being shifted to the Lady Reading hospital.

People trapped under the rubble were still being dug out, and sources told DawnNews that eight injured survivors and the body of a dead child were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital.

Earlier, the city of Peshawar had been placed on high alert, after reports that terrorists had entered the city.

Residents interviewed by DawnNews said that they were unhappy with the security which had been provided by the government, and that they had been trying to arrange for private protection for some time.

Initial reports suggest that the bomb exploded outside the NWFP chief minister’s driver’s house.— DawnNews