The bomb was detonated Wednesday on a bridge in Scheme Chowk area in the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
The injured were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital for treatment. Doctors said the injured are in stable condition.
No group claimed responsibility for the blast as yet.
The Pakistani military has launched a series of offensives against pro-Taliban militants, including Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in the country’s semiautonomous tribal region over the past few years.
Despite the Pakistani government’s operations against the TTP and its associated groups, they remain holed up across various parts of the country, where they carry out their terrorists attacks.
Over 35,000 Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Islamabad entered into an alliance with the US in Washington’s so-called ‘war on terror.’
Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.
HSH/JR
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