Summary A bomb weighing 1.5 kilograms was planted on the roadside.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) – At least three persons including a traffic police officer were injured in a bomb blast near Charsadda Bus Stand in Peshawar today (Friday), Dunya News reported.
Rescue teams and the law enforcement personnel immediately arrived at the scene. The injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital where two of them are said to be in critical condition.
According to police, a bomb weighing 1.5 kilograms was planted on the roadside.
Law enforcement personnel gather evidence from the blast site.
Pakistan has been plagued by militant violence since it joined a U.S.-led campaign against Islamist militancy after the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on the United States.
Security forces have killed and arrested hundreds of suspected militants under an earlier crackdown launched after the 2014 Peshawar school massacre.
Militant violence eased, but groups retain the ability to launch devastating attacks.
