Two killed, 19 injured in Peshawar blast


PESHAWAR: Two persons were killed while nineteen others were wounded in a suicide blast that occurred near the office of the UN refugee agency in Peshawar Monday, Geo News reported. 

According to police, a US consulate vehicle was the target of a suicide car bomb attack at Abdara Road in University Town that killed two persons and injured 19 others, including two foreigners, two women and two children.

Police has recovered a half-burnt US passport from a car badly damaged in the blast, officials said.

"The car targeted was a US consulate vehicle," one intelligence official said. Another official said the suicide bomber ploughed his car into the US consulate car.

Police told that up to 100 kilogram of explosive material was used.

The explosion left a crater in the road and destroyed a Jeep, damaging two others and demolishing the facing walls of four nearby houses.

Security forces cordoned off the area and started investigation.
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