10 dead, 20 injured in Peshawar car bomb blast

PESHAWAR: At least ten persons including women and children died and twenty were injured in a car bomb blast on Circular Road in a thickly populated Berisco area at Kashkal here, when a bomb installed in a vehicle outside a net café near Bargain Centre detonated.
The school bus carrying 15 children passing by the place of incident was totally damaged. The scene of incident being a centrally located place was bustling with life and there was huge rush. The blast followed by heavy firing let loose a reign of terror all around.

Edhi sources said that 20 persons mostly children were injured in the incident. Among the injured shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital here, 8 persons were in critical condition, where emergency has been declared.

Several vehicles and the nearby buildings were also damaged. Bomb disposal squad and the police have arrived at the scene, while the security persons have besieged the area, but the people from nearby were seen crowding the place of incident. Eyewitnesses said that the blast target a net café, which was receiving threats for sometime. The net café was blown up by the incident.

Sources said that police have taken into custody three suspects from the scene of incident, ho have been shifted to an unknown place for interrogation. link...