A massive truck bomb devastated a police station in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan and claimed the lives of four people and injured 30 more, in a region that been marred by a serious of terror attacks in retaliation of the military offensive against the militant outfits in the region. The intensity of the blast ripped through the police station, severely damaged a nearby mosque and demolished the houses in the vicinity of the blast radius. The attack occurred in the town of Badh Ber in Peshawar.

The current Pakistani military offensive against the forces of Pakistan Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other foreign fighter has in fact caused an uproar in the militant outfits, compelling them to undertake a massive and unrelenting terror campaign throughout Pakistan, killing more than 300 people in a little over a month. The truck that carried the explosives to the police station for today’s attack was intercepted by the local police and fired upon, but the driver of the vehicle managed to detonate the charges. According to one of the witnesses,

“The sound of the blast was very loud, and when I rushed out from my home I saw everything was destroyed here.”

As per the police estimates, the explosives used in today’s heinous attack are estimated to be about 250 kilograms, that is known to be the highest amount that has been used in such attacks so far. The current security forces offensive in the South Waziristan region has uprooted a host of terrorists from their stronghold and has forced them to take shelter in Peshawar, thus making the city another haven for these militants.

Via Associated Press.