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Two injured in blast at music market

* Kohat police seize two rockets

Staff Report

PESHAWAR: Two people were injured in an explosion in Bhana Marhi police precincts on Sunday, police said.

“The blast occurred at around 6:15am in Gulshan-e-Rehman Colony,” Haleem Gul, duty officer at Bhana Marhi police station, told Daily Times. He said that an unidentified man handed over a box to Shaukat, a guard at Gulshan Market, saying that he was going to offer prayers and would take the box on his return.

Gul said the explosive device placed in the box detonated soon after the man left, injuring Shaukat and a passerby, Ayaz. He said the police had registered a case and started investigations.

The homemade bomb damaged four music and video shops just weeks after their owners refused an order to close down from Islamic hardliners, AFP reported.

One of the shopkeepers, Bashir Khan, said that hardliners calling themselves the “Soldiers of Islam” had left him a note several weeks ago, saying that music shops in Gulshan market should close their doors. “We had informed the police about the note and requested them to provide security,” Khan said.

In a separate incident in Bukshali Bazaar in Mardan on Sunday, unidentified men gunned down a security guard and blew up four video CD shops.

Bukshali police station duty officer Niaz Ali told Daily Times that security guard Darwaish Khan was shot dead by unknown men before four music shops were blown up in the same market.

A local resident, Shahid, claimed that the security guard was gunned down when he tried to stop the unidentified men from placing explosives in the market.

In another incident, Kohat police seized two rockets near Jarma Bridge, Indus Highway, police said. “Police seized two rockets hidden in bushes near Jarma Bridge,” Dildar, an official of the Kohat City police, told Daily Times over the telephone.

Sources said that the rockets were aimed at the nearby Kohat Cadet College and the Garrison College.

Agencies add: A man was killed while his wife and daughter were seriously injured in a grenade explosion in Ghari Ismail Zai on Sunday.

Zar Dad Khan was playing with a grenade in his house when it exploded, killing Zar Dad and injuring his wife Samina and four-year-old daughter Haseena.

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