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Car bomb explosion in Peshawar kills two

Society Materials 23 August 2009 20:04 (UTC +04:00)

At least two people have been killed and three others wounded in a car bomb explosion in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, Press TV reported.

Police say the bomb was planted in a car belonging to a militant spokesman and was detonated by a remote control.

Identifying the victims as Mubeen Afridi, spokesman for militant group Ansar-ul-Islam (AI) and his driver, Peshawar police chief Sifwatullah Ghayyur blamed rival group Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) for the bombing on a busy road in Hayatabad region on Saturday night.

The groups have been fighting each other in Khyber Agency for many months, Pakistani media say.

The wounded were all passers-by. No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack.

In another development in northwestern Pakistan, unknown gunmen killed two military intelligence officers in front of their homes in Nowshera, a garrison city some 100 kilometers northwest of Islamabad.

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