A nine-year-old child was killed and three other people were wounded Wednesday when a bomb planted in a sewer exploded in Peshawar, police said.
The blast took place in the Scheme Chowk neighbourhood where Taliban militants have waged a campaign of bombing and suicide attacks.
“A nine-year old boy was killed and three others, two children and a man, were wounded in the bomb blast,” senior police official Tahir Ayub told AFP.
It was a remote-controlled device, bomb disposal squad chief Hukam Khan said.
Nobody claimed the responsibility for the blast but militants have carried out several attacks in the area.
Peshawar has a population of 2.5 million people and has long been on the frontline of violence blamed on an insurgency led by Taliban opposed to Islamabad’s alliance with the United States.
Militants have killed more than 4,900 people across Pakistan since government troops raided an Lal Masjid in Islamabad in July 2007.