Two children injured by low intensity blast in Peshawar

Blast occurred near residence of Jamaati-e-Islami MPA Saeed Gul, injured rushed to Lady Reading Hospital.

PESHAWAR: Two children were injured by a low intensity blast in Dir Colony within the jurisdiction of Chamkani police station on Thursday night.

Police said that the blast occurred near the residence of Jamaati-e-Islami (JI) MPA Saeed Gul, but that the target was his neighbour Syed Qayum Shah.

“It was a low intensity bomb blast which damaged the gate of the house and left two children wounded,” said a police official while talking to The Express Tribune. He said that the children were inside the house at the time of the attack and they were rushed to the Lady Reading Hospital.

It looks like another incident of extortion, he added.