At least four killed in grenade attack on cinema


epa04052764 Pakistani security officials inspect the scene of a bomb blast that targeted a cinema in Peshawar, Pakistan, 02 February 2014. At least five people were killed in a bombing at a cinema in northwestern Pakistan Sunday as Islamist militants picked negotiators in response to a government offer to hold peace talks. Two hand grenades were thrown inside a packed cinema hall in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB

PESHAWAR: At least four people were killed and 31 wounded when unidentified attackers hurled two grenades at a cinema in northwest Pakistan, police and medics said.

The attack on the Picture House cinema in Peshawar, the region’s main city, took place as some 90 people were watching a late night show of the film Ziddi Pakhtun (Stubborn Pushtun), police said.

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