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7 killed & 70 injured in Pakistan blast, reports say explosives planted in bag left at Peshawar madrassa

New Delhi
October 27, 2020

A major explosion at a madrassa has rocked a colony in Pakistan�s Peshawar. Local reports say at least seven people have died while 70 others have suffered injuries in the powerful blast at a madrassa in Dir colony of Peshawar.

"The blast took place in a madrassa where unknown people had planted explosives in a plastic bag," a police officer told on Tuesday. Children were among the dead, he added. A spokesman for the Lady Reading Hospital nearby said it had received seven dead and 70 wounded patients, many with burns suffered in the blast.

Tariq Burki, the Director of the hospital, said four of the dead were children.

The madrassa is largely for adult students and many were studying when the blast happened, said city resident Abdul Rahim, whose said his 27 year old cousin was among the wounded.