Policeman killed, 2 injured in NW Pakistan explosion

A rescuer inspects a damaged police van at an explosion site in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan, July 30, 2021. At least one policeman was killed and two people injured in an explosion in Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a rescue organization said. The police were shifting a shopkeeper using a police van to a nearby police station upon the shopkeeper's violation of COVID-19 related guidelines when the van was hit by the explosion, Sher Gul from the non-governmental rescue organization Edhi Foundation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa told Xinhua. (Photo by Saeed Ahmad/Xinhua)