Fresh blasts rock Peshawar

Two attacks in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan have killed 10 people and injured about 70. Two bombs went off in a busy market killing 6 while shortly after a suicide bomber killed 4 soldiers in an attack on a military checkpoint.

Peshawar, capital of the North Western Frontier Province in Pakistan has become the target of another attack, this time in Peshawar’s busy Qissa Khawani market. At least six people were killed and about 70 injured when the two bombs planted on motorcycles went off, detonated by timers, bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik told reporters from AP. Television footage showed the emergency services arriving as the locals tried to extinguish fires and carry bodies of the wounded from the wrecked marketplace. Shortly after, a suspected suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing 4 soldiers. These attacks come six days after a car explosion outside a cinema in Peshawar that killed ten people and injured 75, and hours after a warning from the Pakistani Taliban of further violence following the car bomb blast in Lahore which killed at least 24 people and left over 200 injured. The attack in Lahore was in response to the ongoing military action against the Taliban in the Swat valley, Taliban deputy Hakimullah Mehsud told the BBC by phone. The offensive operation has the army claiming sweeping victories and control over Mingora, the main city in the valley. The Taliban commander also warned of further attacks on "government targets" in the Pakistani cities of Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Multan.