More casualties: Death toll of Badhaber blast rises to 18

PESHAWAR:

The death toll from Sunday’s roadside blast in Badhaber reached 18 when a critically injured person succumbed to his injuries in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) on Monday morning.

Initially, a total of 17 people including women and children were killed and 47 others injured when a car bomb targeting a Frontier Corps convoy on Kohat Road exploded. Since the blast occurred near a marketplace, many nearby shops and ten vehicles parked in the vicinity were also destroyed. According to police officials, 40 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the attack.

Hospital administration officials at LRH said Hazrat Amin, 50, a resident of Mashogagar, was admitted in the general ICU after his condition was declared serious. He breathed his last in the early hours of Monday morning.

LRH has discharged a total of 35 people who were injured in the blast after their condition was said to be stable, while 12 are still admitted in the hospital. The injured include 15-year-old Dildar, a resident of Mashogagar village, who is getting treatment in the Cardiovascular Ward of the Trauma Unit.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 2^nd, 2013.