Bombing kills 10, wounds 35 near Shiite mosque
A police chief was among 10 people killed today when a bomb exploded near a Shiite Muslim mosque.
A further 35 people were wounded in the explosion in a crowded old quarter of Peshawar, in a north-western Pakistan, police said.
Most of the victims were police and municipal officials who were clearing the route for a procession of Shiites, said police officer Aziz Khan. The procession had yet to begin.
Provincial police chief Sharif Virk said that the city police chief Malik Saab was among the dead.
