Deadly car bomb in Pakistan city

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Source: BBC

A car bomb has killed at least six people and injured about 70 in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.

The explosion happened outside a cinema in a busy marketplace, senior police official Abdul Ghafoor Afridi said.

Buildings were severely damaged, and cars destroyed in the blast.

The attack came on the day the UN appealed for $543m in aid to help more than 1.6 million people displaced by fighting in north-west Pakistan.

No group has said it carried out the Peshawar attack.

The cinema, Tasvir Mahal, is located in a densely populated area and the street is usually crowded.

Its facade was severely damaged. The blast happened while a film was being shown, but it was unclear if members of the audience were injured.





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