14 killed as explosion hits Peshawar bus terminal

14 killed as explosion hits Peshawar bus terminal
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Summary Most of the victims were passengers waiting to travel to other areas in the northwest.

A car bomb ripped through a Pakistani bus station on Thursday, killing 14 people and wounding another 30 on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar, a hospital doctor said.The attack happened on the road towards the garrison city of Kohat. Peshawar runs into the lawless tribal belt, a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants blamed for more than four years of bomb attacks in Pakistan.It was a car bomb blast. 14 people have been killed and 32 injured, we are investigating whether a suicide bomber was involved or not, senior police official Kalam Khan told AFP.Last Friday, a suicide bomber killed 31 people in a mainly Shiite Muslim area of the northwestern town of Parachinar in the tribal district of Kurram.