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2 killed, 14 injured in blast in Peshawar, Pakistan

30 June 2011 19:51 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. At least two people were killed and 14 others injured in a blast late Thursday night at a market place in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, reported local Urdu TV channel ARY, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

According to the local media reports, the blast took place at about 9:30 p.m. local time inside a vehicle at the Shoba market in downtown Peshawar.

Police have arrived at the scene shortly after the explosion was reported. The injured people have been rushed to hospital.

Nature of the blast is yet to be determined. Some local media reports said that it could be a CNG cylinder blast of the vehicle.

Other details about the blast are not immediately available.

On the night of June 12, a twin blast attack took place in a market in downtown Peshawar, in which the first blast was initially reported to be a gas cylinder blast followed by a huge suicide bomb attack which killed 39 people and injured over one hundred others.