Peshawar blast
The blast took place in a CDs shop Monday night and damaged as many as ten other shops. The deadly bomb was planted on a motorcycle. It was the second blast in the country on Monday as a blast in Karachi early in the morning at SSP CID’s house killed 8 innocent people.
A women is also reported to be amongst the people killed in Peshawar blast. A police van was damaged in the blast.
The bomb disposal squad said the bomb was planted on a motorcycle.
Karachi blast
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Monday outside the home of a senior police officer tasked with cracking down on militants in Pakistan s largest city. The blast killed at least eight people and left a crater 10 feet (3 meters) deep, police said.
The Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack in the southern port city of Karachi. The target of the bombing, Chaudhry Aslam, escaped unscathed and said he would not be cowed by the attack.
The eight people killed in the attack included six policeman guarding Aslam s house and a mother and daughter, said Aslam. He estimated that at least 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of explosives were used in the attack. Local television footage showed extensive damage from the blast. The front of one two-story concrete building was totally blown away. Rubble littered the streets amid the burned carcasses of cars hit by the explosion. Aslam is a top police officer in the Crime Investigation Department, which works to arrest Taliban fighters and other militants in Karachi, a bustling city that is home to some 18 million people and is also Pakistan s main commercial hub.
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