PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-N senior vice-president, Amir Muqam, escaped unhurt, while three police constables got injuries when a bomb went off on the Peshawar city’s Ring Road on Tuesday evening, police said.

Officials said that police were escorting the central PML-N leader from the Governor House to his residence in Hayatabad when a remote controlled device went off near the police van. Three constables, including the police van’s driver suffered injuries and were shifted to hospital. However, Mr Muqam remained unhurt in the bomb blast, said the officials.

They said that Mr Muqam was returning to his residence after visiting the hospitalised victims of the terrorist attack on the Pakistan Army Public School, when the bomb targeted him at Pish Takhar area of the ring road on the outskirts of Peshawar.

The police said that the motive behind the attack could not be known as either the target was PML-N leader or the police.

Meanwhile, the officials said that another explosive device went off on the same route, but it didn’t cause any damage.

Published in Dawn, December 17th, 2014