The bombing is the third attack in as many days in or close to Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
Police officer Maazullah Khan says Tuesday’s bombing in Charsada city also wounded at least 20 people. The city is some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Peshawar.
Local TV footage showed a destroyed car and several badly damaged stalls and shops. Ambulances ferried the dead and injured to the hospital along roads littered with debris.
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