PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov, 28, Reuter: A bomb ripped through a central market in Peshawar around noon on Saturday, injuring at least 20 people, ‘witnesses said. Another bomb exploded in the evening near an army engineering workshop in the military quarter of the city, capital of Pakistan’s sort West frontier corvine there was no word on casualties or damage from the second blast. Authorities cordoned off the area and kept civilians out. ‘There was no immediate information that was responsible, Pakistan blames the Soviet backed yoga government for a series of bombs which have killed over 200 people this year. Most blasts were in the province, which plays host to most of an estimated three million Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Afghan guerrilla parties fighting the Kabul government, two people were killed and 18 injured by a bomb blast in Peshawar on November 18.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 4, 1987
