By IANS,
Peshawar : A powerful bomb placed on a donkey cart exploded Wednesday outside a school in this Pakistani city, killing two people and injuring 14, including seven children.
The deafening explosion spread panic in the area as the wounded children cried out in pain.
Senior Superintendent of Police (Operation), Muhammad Ejaz Khan, said “it was a remote control bomb blast in which five kg explosive was used”.
The bomb was kept on a donkey-cart and killed a passerby, Azizur Rehman, and an unidentified man and injured 14 others, The Nation reported.
The injured were taken to Lady Reading Hospital where the condition of two victims was said to be critical.
The media report said that the number of dead would have been much higher if the bomb had exploded half-an-hour later as the students had not yet reached the school.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour told reporters that the blast was part of a plot to create unrest among people.
He said militants would not be allowed to shatter the government’s firm resolve to wipe out the menace of militancy and terrorism from the society.