MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti) - Over 40 people have been killed in bombings in Pakistan, media reported Sunday.
The attacks occurred on the day Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his British counterpart David Cameron met to discuss security, Al Jazeera reported.
The first bombing on Sunday initially targeted a convoy of Frontier Corps soldiers in Badhber near the city of Peshawar in the country’s northwest. However, the remotely detonated car bomb destroyed a market area instead of hitting the convoy. At least 17 people were killed.
A Badhber police station chief, Mir Ajab Khan, said the explosion “destroyed 10 shops and eight vehicles,” adding that among those wounded, there were many women and children.
The second attack saw a suicide bomber strike near a mosque in the Hazara Town district of the city of Quetta in Pakistan’s west. Reports said 24 people died in the attack and at least 65 were wounded. More casualties could have been caused by another explosion at an electricity substation triggered by that blast, the Qatar-based broadcaster reported.
Another bomb attack, targeting a soldiers’ vehicle in Pakistan’s northwest, left four servicemen dead.
No organization has claimed responsibility for the bombings, which happened close to the border with Afghanistan, where the Pakistan Taliban operate.
