PESHAWAR: At least eight people including five Frontier Corps personnel were injured in an explosion in Peshawar.
The blast occurred near a Frontier Corps vehicle on Warsak Road. Rescue teams were dispatched to the site of the incident and provided medical assistance.
Rescue officials transferred the injured to hospital. Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a hunt for the culprits.
SP Warsak Division Muhammed Arshad Khan said the explosion was an IED blast. However, the Bomb Disposal Squad would confirm nature of the blast.
In July this earlier, a soldier was martyred and several others were injured when a Frontier Corps van was targeted in a bomb blast in Hayatabad area of Pehawar.
The explosion was a suicide attack that hit a vehicle of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Peshawar, police said.
Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, a newly founded militant group, had claimed responsibility for the attack. Pakistan has seen an increase in attacks in recent months with several terrorism-related incidents being reported.
