DERA ISMAIL KHAN Three people were injured when a powerful bomb exploded in a CD shop on east circular road, police and hospital sources confirmed.
The bomb planted by unknown miscreants exploded at about 1015 pm leaving three people critically injured. Eye witnesses said the bomb blast inflicted considerable damage to the targeted shop besides shattering the adjacent shops too.
The district police officer Naser Mahmood Satti reached along with bomb disposal squad on the spot. Hospital source informed that injured people were idenfied as  Ayyub, Aslam and Rizwan .

It is mentioning that Dera Ismail Khan, the southern district of the province is passing through the worst religion/political violence these days.

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