Islamabad/Peshawar: Thirty-five people, including two journalists, were killed and over 100 injured when two bomb blasts ripped through a crowded Peshawar market followed by an explosion in Islamabad, the latest in a series of attacks after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
A first explosion lured in onlookers and emergency services before a second more powerful blast, believed to be from a suicide strike, went off in Khyber Super Market area in Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, police said today.
The first explosion at late last night was a low-intensity one caused by a timed device hidden in the bathroom of a hotel. The second blast was triggered by a suicide bomber on a motorbike, bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik told reporters.
Senior police officer Dost Mohammed said the blasts caused 34 fatalities and injured 100 people.
Those killed included two journalists working for newspapers Pakistan Today and The News.
Hours later, an explosive device buried on the edge of a road outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad detonated, wounding three men, police said.
A first explosion lured in onlookers and emergency services before a second more powerful blast, believed to be from a suicide strike, went off in Khyber Super Market area in Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, police said today.
The first explosion at late last night was a low-intensity one caused by a timed device hidden in the bathroom of a hotel. The second blast was triggered by a suicide bomber on a motorbike, bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik told reporters.
Senior police officer Dost Mohammed said the blasts caused 34 fatalities and injured 100 people.
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Those killed included two journalists working for newspapers Pakistan Today and The News.
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Hours later, an explosive device buried on the edge of a road outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad detonated, wounding three men, police said.
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