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Peshawar police cordons off the area after IED blast injures 5

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PESHAWAR: Additional Inspector General (AIG) of KP Police Shafqat Malik has ordered to cordon off the area after 5 people including two traffic police personnel were injured in a roadside blast here today.

The improvised explosive device (IED) blast, which happened in Peshawar’s Ashraf road, weighed around two kilograms (KGs) and was remotely detonated.

Security forces and rescue teams reached the incident site and started rescue operations.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.