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Bomb blast injures one in NW Pakistan's Peshawar

2009-11-21 03:59:45 GMT2009-11-21 11:59:45 (Beijing Time)  Xinhua English

Security personnel check the blast site in Peshawar, Pakistan, Nov. 21, 2009. At least one person was injured in a bomb blast outside a non-government organization office in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar on Saturday morning, according to local TV channel reports. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

Security personnel check the blast site in Peshawar, Pakistan, Nov. 21, 2009. At least one person was injured in a bomb blast outside a non-government organization office in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar on Saturday morning, according to local TV channel reports. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

Security personnel check the blast site in Peshawar, Pakistan, Nov. 21, 2009. At least one person was injured in a bomb blast outside a non-government organization office in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar on Saturday morning, according to local TV channel reports. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

Security personnel check the blast site in Peshawar, Pakistan, Nov. 21, 2009. At least one person was injured in a bomb blast outside a non-government organization office in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar on Saturday morning, according to local TV channel reports. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- At least one person was injured in a bomb blast outside a non-government organization office in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar on Saturday morning, according to local TV channel reports.

Police sources said that the bomb was planted adjacent to the office wall. Four to five kg of explosions were used in the blast.

Police cordoned off the blast site, the private TV Express reported.

Peshawar has seen a wave of bombings over the last couple of weeks as the army presses an offensive against the Taliban in the nearby Afghan border region.

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