Overview

• Four children, aged 7 to 10, and an adult were injured in an explosion in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
• An improvised explosive device (IED) went off on a busy road in Peshawar at 9:10 a.m. (0410 GMT).
• Two of the children are in critical condition.
• There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
• Peshawar's police chief, Mohammad Ashfaq Anwar, stated there was no indication school children were the target of the attack.