A car bomb in pakistan killed 15, 25 injuired

Kathmandu, June 30 – A car bomb aimed at a Pakistani security force convoy killed 15 people and wounded 25 others on Sunday on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar.

 

The attack happened not far from the semi-autonomous tribal belt where Taliban and al Qaeda linked groups have bases, as British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the capital Islamabad.

 

"Now 15 people have died," said Jamil Shah, spokesman for the government-run Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. At least three children were among the dead, and two children and a woman were among more than 20 injured, he added.

 

Javed Khan, a local administration official, told reporters that one policeman was also among the dead in the attack at Badaber, a flashpoint for violence south of Peshawar.

 

Shops and cars were damaged in the attack. Pieces of human flesh, broken glass, lost shoes and vegetables from nearby carts were flung across the scene, and the seats of damaged cars were stained with blood.

 

It was not immediately clear whether anyone from the paramilitary Frontier Corps, the target of the attack, had been killed.

 

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the Pakistani Taliban frequently target security forces as part of a seven-year domestic insurgency that has killed thousands of Pakistanis.

 

AFP