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Bus blast kills at least eight in Pakistan

2013-04-13 207 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: An explosion in a passenger coach on Saturday killed at least eight people in the Matani market, some 30 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of the country's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.<br/> <br />The bomb exploded when the coach was passing through the Matani bazaar, a busy market in the outskirts of Peshawar, police said.<br/> <br />Matani is located at the edge of the tribal town of Darra Adam Khel in the Khyber tribal agency.<br/> <br />Mohammad Shahid, a local police official, told Reuters the bomb was probably planted in the Matani-bound passenger van before it left Peshawar, and exploded when the bus reached Matani market.<br/> <br />He said eight persons were killed on the spot and 15 were injured, including women.<br/> <br />Police said they had arrested the driver and conductor of the bus, who had escaped unhurt, for interrogation.<br/> <br />The injured were rushed to the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar where doctors said the death toll could ri

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