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Blast rocks Peshawar airport
A bomb explodes in a car outside an airport in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Last Modified: 26 Dec 2006 14:32 GMT
Pakistan's North West Frontier Province has been
the scene of recurrent bomb attacks




A car bomb has exploded outside the main airport in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing a labourer and wounding two others.
 
Qazi Jamil, a senior police investigation officer, said on Tuesday that the bomb was planted in a small Suzuki car and went off in the car park of the airport just after 7am (02:10 GMT).
"It was a powerful blast. The car was totally destroyed," he said, adding that several other vehicles were also damaged.
 
Three people were injured, one of them, identified as a labourer, died of his injuries in the local Khyber Teaching hospital, doctor Zahir Shah said.
The two others are out of danger, Shah said.
 
Police described it as a terrorist act.
 
"It was an act of terrorism. We are investigating," said senior police officer Malik Saad.
 
No one has so far claimed responsibility for the bombing.
 
Peshawar is in the northwest of the country near the border with Afghanistan and has seen several, mostly small, explosions over the past year.
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