"Five people including four police personnel and a child were killed in a bomb blast in Sir Dheri, some 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) north of Peshawar," senior police official Shafi Ullah told AFP.
"Apparently it was a planted device but we are still investigating the nature of the blast," he added.
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