Bombs Kill two, Injure three in Kohat
Pakistan Times Sindh Bureau Report

KOHAT: Two home-made bombs exploded about 25 minutes apart in a park in north-western Pakistan on Wednesday, killing a suspected bomber and a security official with wounding three others, who are said to be policemen.

The man killed by the first explosion is suspected of planting the bombs, which went off in Kohat, a garrison city 30 miles south of Peshawar and not far from the Afghan border, a foreign news agency qouted the ISPR chief, Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan as saying.

The second explosion killed a security official and wounded three policemen who were called to investigate the initial blast, said Sultan.

The blasts occurred in a part of Kohat where army offices, a military hospital and homes of army officers are located.

A Terrorist Act

General Sultan called the bombings a terrorist act, but did not say who was involved and denied reports that the man killed was a suicide bomber. He said security forces were investigating the attacker's identity.

Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in the campaign against terror that ousted the Taliban regime from Afghanistan. The government's decision to side with America has angered extermists, who have been accused of carrying out bombings and attacks in Pakistan.

Perspective

'Pakistan Times' Federal Bureau adds; Two home-made bombs exploded on Wednesday in Kohat, an ISPR Spokesman said. One person was killed in the first blast.

It is suspected that the deceased was planting one of the two bombs when it went off in a public park in Kohat.

It is not clear who planted the second bomb, which exploded in the same area about 25 minutes later it did not cause any injury. He said security forces were investigating the identity of the person who was killed in the blast.

An earlier report from Kohat in the north-western frontier province of Pakistan said that two bombs blasted Wednesday evening in Kohat, killing attacker.

A bomb was tied to the attacker, the report by media had revealed.●