Blast Injures 3 Security Personnel In NW Pakistan

Islamabad, Oct 24, IRNA – Three security officials were injured when explosives stored in a room went off in north western Pakistan on Tuesday, sources said. Police sources said that FC personnel were on duty near an under construction house on Frontier Road, at Badaber area in the outskirt of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, when suddenly a blast occurred in the house under construction, wounding three of them. Rescue and security teams reached the spot and shifted the injured personnel to Peshawar hospital. Meanwhile an improvised explosive device (IED) fixed along the road was diffused in Bara Sheikhan area near Peshawar on Tuesday. According to sources, the bomb disposal squad found the explosives fixed along the roadside in Bara Sheikhan area during a search operation. The squad diffused the bomb on time that was planted to target a police patrolling team./end