Islamabad: At least 12 people, including a woman, were injured in a car bomb blast, which ripped through a parking lot in a congested market area of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday.
The blast, which took place in a cantonment area, also damaged several vehicles, city police chief Abdul Majeed Khan told reporters.
Witnesses said glasses of several nearby buildings were smashed due to the impact of the blast, which injured 12 people, including a woman.
The cars, parked outside a bank, caught fire as the device exploded with a loud bang, heard in many parts of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.
There was no immediate claim for responsibility of the blast from any group. Police cordoned off the area and experts from bomb disposal squad examined the car in which the device was planted.
Today's explosion followed a series of blasts, including two suicide attacks on Tuesday that killed 30 people, mostly security personnel, in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Pakistan is a key ally of the US in its campaign against terror. In recent years, Peshawar and many other parts of the Islamic nation have been hit by scores of bomb attacks, most blamed on outlawed domestic militant groups.
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