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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Sixteen people were killed, including a woman and two children, and 32 were wounded Sunday when a vehicle packed with explosions blew up just outside the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwest Pakistan, a senior administration official said. | |
The bomb exploded Sunday afternoon as a convoy of the paramilitary Frontier Corps was passing along the main Indus Highway in Badaber on the southern fringe of the provincial capital of Peshawar. “It looks like the F.C. convoy was the target,” said the deputy commissioner for Peshawar, Javed Marwat. | |
Mr. Marwat said the vehicle was parked near the police station and in a market area that is always crowded. All of the dead were civilians. | |
The wounded, including three members of the Frontier Corps, were taken to hospitals in Peshawar, and the police began to search the area, Mr. Marwat said. No arrests had been made by Sunday evening, he said. Several cars and shops were also damaged. | |
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but a security official said militants operating in the adjoining semiautonomous tribal region could be involved. | No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but a security official said militants operating in the adjoining semiautonomous tribal region could be involved. |
An official of the Bomb Disposal Squad said terrorists had packed the explosives with shrapnel and ball bearings to cause the maximum damage. | |
In another attack, a roadside bombing in the North Waziristan tribal region killed three soldiers and wounded seven. | |
“A military convoy was on its way from Miram Shah, headquarters of the North Waziristan tribal region, when it was hit by a roadside bombing,” a security official said. | |
Military convoys move on what is called Road Opening Days, when the authorities in the volatile tribal region along the border with Afghanistan impose a curfew to help clear the road and ensure safe passage. “Curfew was announced last night, so some militants might have planted the bomb and waited for the convoy to move,” the official said. “All they needed was to push a button, even if there was curfew.” |