Deaths in Peshawar car bomb blast

At least ten people have been killed in a car bomb blast in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, just 70km from where the military is battling Taliban forces in the Swat valley.At least 80 people were injured in Friday's blast, which took place outside a cinema on a busy road in the city, police said.Ten people were killed in the blast, but a Pakistani news channel said six people had been killed and some reports said only three people had died.A senior police official, quoted by news agencies, said only that there had been "several casualties"."The blast occurred in front of a cinema in Khyber bazaar. Casualties are feared," Ghafoor Afridi, another senior police official, was reported by the AFP news agency as saying.The cinema building was badly damaged and up to 10 nearby shops were destroyed in the blast, one witness said."There was a fear in Pakistan - among analysts and ordinary people - that any operation the army undertook in the Swat valley to route the Taliban would result in a renewed wave of suicide bombings by the Pakistani Taliban,"."This attack - if it is anything to do with the Pakistani Taliban - just goes to show how fragile and dangerous the situation in the country has become."No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.