Pakistan: Two killed, one injured in suicide blast in Peshawar

The event happened on Peshawar’s Nasir Bagh Road near Board Bazar. A motorcycle was used to plant the device.

The Khyber Teaching Hospital has admitted the deceased and injured patients.

The official stated that explosives were hidden in a motorbike that was parked nearby, according to unverified and preliminary reports. The blast location has been blocked off, and rescue efforts are in progress.

But as of yet, no organisation has taken credit for the explosion.

KPK Ali Amin Gandapur, the chief minister, denounced the explosion and requested a police report on the event.

The blast comes nearly a month after at least 28 people were killed in twin blasts in Balochistan province just ahead of the parliamentary elections. The February 7 attacks were claimed by the ISIL (ISIS) group.

Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, which borders Afghanistan, has experienced an increase in violent assaults in the recent year, with many of them claimed by the Pakistan Taliban and the ISIL organisation.

Last December, a vehicle bomb strike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan area killed at least 23 troops and wounded another 34.

According to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), an Islamabad-based research group, Pakistan had 664 assaults in the first 11 months of 2023, a 67% rise over the same period in 2022.