KOHAT (Dunya News) - Two bombs exploded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Peshawar and Kohat areas on Sunday killing at least eight persons and injuring 30 others.
An election office of an independent candidate Nasir Khan was targeted on Charsadda road in Peshawar’s Maqsoodabad area killing at least three persons and injuring 15 others.
According to initial reports the bomb was planted on a motorcycle.
The victims were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
Earlier, a bomb exploded neat the election office of NA-39′s independent candidate Syed Noor Akbar Alam on Hangu road in Kacha Pakka village of Kohat region killing at least five people and injuring 15 others.
The blast was heard across Kohat city and caused damage to nearby shops, buildings and parked cars.
District Police Office Dilawar Bangash told that the bomb was a remotely-detonated device planted in a shop which was between the election offices of an independent candidate Noor Akbar who is contesting election from NA-39 and the election office of Awami National Party candidate Khursheed Begum, contesting from NA-14.
He added that at least 10 kilograms of explosive material was used in its making and that the election offices of both the candidates were destroyed in the attack.
Bomb Disposal Squad officials who reach the spot were also of the view that the bomb was planted.
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