At least three people sustained injuries on Sunday during a blast in Peshawar's Chamkani vegetable market near Phandu Chowk. According to Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS), the explosive material was planted in a pushcart, weighing three kilograms.
Police officials and rescue teams reached the spot and shifted the injured to Lady Reading Hospital. Police while cordoning off the area have initiated a search operation. Moreover, no arrest has been made yet.
"Qari Salahuddin, head of a religious institution, and his gunman Abdul Shakoor were on their way to the seminary when a remote-controlled bomb, planted in a pushcart, went off at the Inqilab Road, causing damage to the vehicle while both the persons received wounds," a police official, who requested not to be named, told this scribe.
Soon after the explosion, police and security personnel cordoned off the area and shifted the injured to the Lady Reading Hospital for providing emergency medical care.
Meanwhile, a search operation was conducted to arrest the alleged perpetrators of the blast.