PESHAWAR: Four persons including three children and a woman were killed while six others injured when a device exploded in a house at Landikotal area of Khyber district on Tuesday, the police said. The blast occurred near check-post Charwazgai where a house was partially damaged due to the blast.

The police and law enforcement agencies rushed to the site and cordoned off the area. The bodies and the injured were shifted to a nearby hospital. Meanwhile, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan expressed grief and sorrow over the loss of human lives in the blast.