Peshawar: Bashir Bilour among seven killed in ANP rally blast

ANP leader and senrior minister Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Bashir Ahmad Bilour could not surive the injuries after a suicide bomber blew hiself up in an ANP rally in Peshawar. Seven people were killed Saturday night when a powerful bomb exploded during the public meeting of ANP in Qissa Khwani Bazar.

SHO Sattar Khan was also killed in the blast. ANP leader Bashir Belour has also been injured and his condition is stated to be critical. Bashir Belour’s personal secretary Noor Muhammad was among the seven people who lost their lives in the blast. According to initial reports, the blast took place at Qissa Khwani Bazar during an ANP public meeting. ANP leader Bashir Bilour has received serious injuries while his personal secretary Noor Muhammad alias Babu also sustained injuries and was rushed to hospital where he succumbed to injuries. Police and rescue teams reached the site of occurrence and shifted the dead bodies and injured people to Lady Redding Hospital. The explosion was so powerful that the windowpanes of the nearby buildings were broken. According to hospital sources 18 injured were brought to Lady Redding Hospital Police sources says it was a suicide attack.