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13 December 2010
Last updated at 06:10 ET
A bomb blast has hit a school bus in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing the driver and a 13-year-old boy.
The roadside bomb, of the type used against Nato troops in Afghanistan, was planted in a bin.
The device went off in the busy Bhana Marri area on the Kohut road, the scene of many blasts.
Last week a suicide bomb claimed by the Taliban killed more than 40 people in north-west Pakistan.
A 13-year-old girl is among four people seriously injured after Monday's explosion, police say.
Peshawar is close to Pakistan's insurgency heartland tribal regions and the Afghan border.
The city has been the scene of frequent attacks by the Taliban, including on government installations and security force targets.
Correspondents say that militants in the north-west have frequently attacked schools - especially girls' schools - but usually when children are not there.
Police investigating the latest attack are examining the possibility that the bomb may have missed its intended target.
The bus was hit near a private school, police say, and the blast ripped through the vehicle, leaving charred wreckage and a crater on the ground nearby.
Words painted in English which read "Islamia Model High School" were still visible on the vehicle's side.
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The roadside bomb, of the type used against Nato troops in Afghanistan, was planted in a bin.
The device went off in the busy Bhana Marri area on the Kohut road, the scene of many blasts.
Last week a suicide bomb claimed by the Taliban killed more than 40 people in north-west Pakistan.
A 13-year-old girl is among four people seriously injured after Monday's explosion, police say.
Peshawar is close to Pakistan's insurgency heartland tribal regions and the Afghan border.
The city has been the scene of frequent attacks by the Taliban, including on government installations and security force targets.
Correspondents say that militants in the north-west have frequently attacked schools - especially girls' schools - but usually when children are not there.
Police investigating the latest attack are examining the possibility that the bomb may have missed its intended target.
The bus was hit near a private school, police say, and the blast ripped through the vehicle, leaving charred wreckage and a crater on the ground nearby.
Words painted in English which read "Islamia Model High School" were still visible on the vehicle's side.
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