Pakistan: Dozens killed and injured in Peshawar blast

SANAA, Oct. 27 (YPA) – At least seven people were killed and dozens injured, including children, in a bombing at a religious school in Pakistan’s western city of Peshawar on Tuesday, Reuters reported

“The explosion took place in a school where unknown persons planted explosives in a plastic bag,” a police official was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Among the dead were children, he added.

A spokesman for Lady Reading Hospital near the scene said the hospital received seven dead and 70 injured, many of them burned from the blast.

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