Islamabad, June 06: Footage on television showed the mangled parts of the vehicle hit by the blast lying at the bus stop, which is frequented by residents of Peshawar, Kohat and the nearby Khyber tribal region.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for both attacks. A militant spokesman told TV news channels that the vehicle in the bus stop was targeted because members of an anti-Taliban militia were in it.
The attacks came two days after a US drone strike in South Waziristan that is believed to have killed Al Qaida-linked terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri. The Pakistani Taliban have carried out a series of attacks to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US raid in the garrison city of Abbottabad on May 2.
——–PTI