PESHAWAR – A bomb blast outside a hotel in a garrison town in northwest Pakistan killed nine people and wounded 12 yesterday.
The bomb went off in the town of Risalpur, near the end of the fasting month of Ramadan when people were busy shopping for the Muslim festival of Eid next week.
“It was a remote-controlled bomb and exploded when the market area was crowded with people,” the area’s police chief said.
The death toll could rise as several people were critically wounded, officials said.
There have been several attacks since Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in another garrison town in May. – (Reuters)
