NOWSHERA: At least twelve people were killed while several others sustained injuries when a bomb blast ripped through the Jalozai camp of Afghan refugees in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district on Thursday, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported.
Police said the explosion occurred in a car parked near the camp, killing at least twelve people including women and children and leaving behind scores of injured.
Law enforcers and rescue teams shifted the injured to hospitals. The bomb disposal squad said 35 kilograms of explosives were used.
Jalozai refugee camp, 35 kilometres southeast of Peshawar, is one of largest refugee camps in Pakistan, holding over 70,000 Afghan refugees from the 1980s Soviet invasion and US-led war in Afghanistan.
DND
