PESHAWAR: At least five people including two traffic police officials were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion on Peshawar’s Ashraf Road area on Monday, Additional Inspector General (AIG) Shafqat Malik confirmed.
Following the blast, security forces cordoned off the area and shifted the injured to Lady Reading Hospital for medical treatment.
According to Malik, the bomb weighed around two kilograms and was the prime cause of the incident. “The bomb was remotely detonated,” he said, adding that it was planted in a motorbike.
He added that the target was apparently the police officials on duty. An investigation is underway, he announced.
The incident comes days after a warning was issued by the Federal Ministry of Interior, directing the provincial governments to make strict security arrangments as the “terrorists were planning to target important security installations and public places”.
