Security officials inspect the blast site in eastern Pakistan's Rawalpindi on June 12, 2020. One person was killed and 11 others were injured when a blast took place in a market in Rawalpindi district of Pakistan's east Punjab Province on Friday, police sources said. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)
ISLAMABAD, June 13 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and 11 others were injured when a blast took place in a market area in Rawalpindi district of Pakistan's east Punjab province on Friday, police sources said.
The incident happened when an improvised explosive device went off inside the market located in cantonment area of Rawalpindi, the sister city of Islamabad on Friday night.
The explosion left a pushcart hawker killed and 11 others including hawkers and passersby injured. The injured people have been shifted to a nearby hospital where their condition is stable, the sources told Xinhua.
According to initial investigations, the bomb was fixed in a motorbike parked at the roadside by unknown militants who fled the scene after leaving it in the market.
Police reached the site and cordoned it off to carry out the probe into the incident, whereas media was restricted from the area.
No group or individual has claimed the attack yet. Enditem
