PESHAWAR: Two people were killed and about a dozen wounded when a motorbike bomb exploded in northwest Pakistan, police and hospital officials said yesterday.
The low-intensity bomb was detonated by a remote control device in the Imamia Colony neighbourhood of Peshawar, the main city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
“It was a remote-controlled device planted on a motorbike which went off in a street,” police said, adding the blast partially damaged three houses.
Police, meanwhile, averted a terror attack in Badaber area on the outskirt of the city. They said miscreants had planted a bomb at the gate of the house of a schoolteacher, but following a tip-off, a bomb disposal squad defused the bomb weighing about 3kg. aGENCIES
