35 Killed 80 wounded In Twin Bomb Blast In Peshawar
PESHAWAR: June 12, 2011
Thirty four people were killed and more than 80 injured in a twin bomb blast in Khyber Marker near ‘The News’ and Geo TV office in Peshawar on Saturday night.
The first bomb blast took place in a small restaurant at the populated Khyber Super Market in Peshawar Cantonment at around 11:45pm. People including police men, rescue workers and news men from the adjacent office of geo and the news rushed to the blast sight. As soon as the blast site was crowded another bomb went off killing and wounding more people.
The first small blast was to lure the media men, security forces and a larger crowd who rushed to site immediareley. Then came the second blast which was more powerful doing most of the fatal damages.
Army and policemen cordoned off the area after the explosions and rescue workers are still looking for the injured or killed.
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