A blast in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar early Tuesday injured four children aged 7 to 10 and also an adult, according to hospital and rescue officials.
The spokesperson for emergency rescue services, Bilal Ahmad Faizi, said an improvised explosive device (IED) went off on a busy road in Peshawar around 9:10 a.m. (0410 GMT). He stated that five people were people, four of whom were children.
According to Mohammad Asim, a spokesman for the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, two of the children were in serious condition.
The attackers made no immediate claim of responsibility.
As stated by Peshawar’s police chief, Mohammad Ashfaq Anwar, there was no proof that schoolchildren were the target of the attack.
Peshawar, which is on the border of Pakistan’s tribal districts and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, is frequently attacked by Islamist militant groups such as the Islamic State and the Pakistani Taliban.
Six Taliban militants attacked an army-run academy in 2014, killing 153 people, most of whom were students.