Blast kills two people in Pakistan NW
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, May 13, IRNA -- A blast two people were killed near an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan’s northwest on Wednesday, police said.
Three other people were injured as the bomb exploded near ‘Shamshatoo Camp’, located 25 kilometers southeast of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Paskhtoonkhwa, police said.
Police said that those killed were students of a local seminary.
Thousands of Afghans are living in ‘Shamshatoo Camp’, which is run by Hizb-e-Islami party of former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbadin Hekmatyar.
No group claimed responsibility for the blast. It was not clear as to who was target of the blast.
A spokesman for Hekmatyar group, Waliullah, said that the blast occurred near another Afghan refugee camp knows as “Proja camp’ which also located near Shamshatoo camp.
“Proja Camp” is also run by an Afghan leader Qazi Muhammad Amin, the former deputy of Hizb-e-Islami.
The UN refugee agency says there are still some 1.6 million registered Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.
Pakistan has extended till 2012 stay of the registered Afghans, who are living in camps and also in rented houses.
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