PESHAWAR: Twin bomb explosions Wednesday in town of Akora Khattak injured nine people including policemen and journalists, police said.
The two bombs exploded in the tomb, Ajmal Khattak, spreading panic in the town, 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Peshawar.
"Intial investigations revealed that three time devices had been planted in the tomb, which went off with a big bang but nobody was injured," local police official Hayat Ullah told AFP.
Journalists rushed to the site to cover the event and while they were collecting details of the incident from police, the second remote-controlled blast took place.
"The second blast occurred after more than one hour injuring five policemen and four local television journalists," the official said.
Another senior local police official, Muhammad Hussain also confirmed the incident.
Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks but provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said militants were responsible for targetting the tomb.
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