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PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 43 others when he rammed his motorcycle into a bus on University Road here on Monday, police said.
The bombing took place at Peshawar's Jehangir Abad neighbourhood on Arbab Road close to a police vehicle and also damaged a passing bus.
"The commissioner, who passed just a minute before from the road, was the target of the bombing, but he escaped unhurt as the bomber missed the target and struck his motorcycle into a passenger bus," police official said.
Body parts of the suicide bomber were also found at the blast site, he added.
Bomb disposal officials said the explosives weighed up to six kilograms (13 pounds).
Rescue teams shifted the bodies and injured to Khyber Teaching Hospital while police cordoned off the area and started investigation.
The University Road was closed for traffic after the incident.



LAHORE: As election campaign continues in Punjab with full swing, back-to-back bombings in three other provinces of the country have overshadowed the campaign.
The purpose of enemies of Pakistani society and its system had become clear over the past 24 hours as eleven explosions occurred in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, killing at least eleven people and injuring more than 60.
During the last 24 hours, seven bombs exploded in the capital of Balochistan. On Tuesday, String of blasts in Quetta challenged the writ of the government in which four people were killed.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a bomb went off at Sarki Gate in the provincial capital, Peshawar, leaving two people injured.
In Sindh, the death toll have reached to five while 15 were reportedly injured as a result of blast that took place on Tuesday near the election office of Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Karachi.
Prior to the aforesaid attacks, the election office and the electoral candidates of Awami National Party (ANP) were also targeted.
The nation has once again got an opportunity to elect their representatives after five years. The masses are determined to use their democratic right as missing the opportunity would make the terrorist victor who wanted to deprive the nation from using their right to vote.

(Source: Geo News)


KARACHI: Unidentified assailants hurled a hand grenade at a house located in Gulshan e Iqbal area of the metropolis and fled away; however, no casualty was reported.
According to the police, the unidentified assailants riding motorbike attacked a house near Bait ul Mukarram mosque with the hand grenade.
The police said that the attack was carried out at the house of a carpet shop owner. It further said that his shop was also assaulted with the grenade two weeks ago.
The sources said that the shop owner was demanded to pay extortion money, and over non-payment his shop and house were targeted.

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