PESHAWAR: At least two people, including an administrator of a religious seminary, were injured on Sunday when a roadside bomb hit a vehicle in Peshawar’s Sabzi Mandi area.
“Qari Salahuddin, head of a religious institution, and his gunman Abdul Shakoor were on their way to the seminary when a remote-controlled bomb, planted in a pushcart, went off at the Inqilab Road, causing damage to the vehicle while both the persons received wounds,” a police official, who requested not to be named, said.
Police and security personnel cordoned the area and shifted the injured to the Lady Reading Hospital.
A search operation was underway to arrest the alleged perpetrators of the blast.
Rejecting some reports, Senior Superintendent of Police Abbas Majeed Marwat denied that Qari Salahuddin, who was apparently targeted in the IED explosion, was a leader of the Kashmir-based Jamatud Dawa.
Salahuddin is an Afghan national who teaches at a local seminary, the SSP said.
The incident comes days after gunmen armed with grenades and kalashnikovs stormed the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, killing as many as 22 people while injuring over 30 others. According to police, the militants, using the cover of thick wintry fog, had scaled the walls of the university before entering buildings and opening fire on students and teachers in classrooms and hostels.
DAILY TIMES.
YEMI
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