CNews PEHSHAWAR: A homemade bomb ripped through a music shop in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday injuring 20 people, police and hospital officials said. The blast happened in the Musafir CD Centre located in the basement of a busy shopping centre in the city, police and local shopkeepers said. The roof of the shop collapsed in the bombing, Peshawar police chief Abdul Majeed Marwat said.
A doctor at a nearby hospital said 20 people were injured, five of them seriously. "No one has died," doctor Ruhul Amin said.
The bomb had apparently been placed in a water cooler inside the shop, witnesses said. The owner of the shop had been receiving threats from suspected militants to close his "un-Islamic" business, shopkeepers said.
Islamic militancy is spreading in the deeply-conservative province where militants, emulating the ultra-orthodox Taliban who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, strive to impose their own strict brand of Islam.
A doctor at a nearby hospital said 20 people were injured, five of them seriously. "No one has died," doctor Ruhul Amin said.
The bomb had apparently been placed in a water cooler inside the shop, witnesses said. The owner of the shop had been receiving threats from suspected militants to close his "un-Islamic" business, shopkeepers said.
Islamic militancy is spreading in the deeply-conservative province where militants, emulating the ultra-orthodox Taliban who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, strive to impose their own strict brand of Islam.
