PESHAWAR: A blast occurred near police's Chamkani check post in Peshawar’s cattle market early on Sunday, DawnNews reported.
Seven people were injured when the blast targeting a police check post, ripped through a cattle market situated on Peshawar's Ring Road.
Police and emergency response teams rushed to the spot and the injured were shifted to Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital.
The condition of one injured was stated to be critical.
Fear and panic gripped the area after blast and police cordoned off the area and began investigations.
SSP Rural Shafiullah said that five to six kilograms of explosives were used in the home-made-remote-detonated bomb and that no damage to policemen had been reported.The blast inflicted minor damage to the outer wall of the police check post.
In a separate incident a tribal chief Sardar Mohammad Sultan was killed in a gun attack by militants in eastern Kurram agency.
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