Peshawar: At least 18 people were killed and several injured when a bomb exploded inside a passenger bus, near Kohat, some 37 miles from here on Monday.
Police and rescue workers rushed to the spot. Sources said that the bus was heading toward Hangu from Kohat when the incident took place.The dead and injured were shifted to a near by hospital while an emergency was imposed in the hospital.
Kohat Police DIG Masood Afridi while talking to media said that all the passengers on board were killed and it was yet to be ascertained either it was a bomb blast or cylinder blast, ” there was no smell of explosive material in the air” , he added.
Masood Afridi said that the bus was completely destroyed in the blast.
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