One martyred and 19 injured in Peshawar procession

An infant martyred and 19 mournerâ€™s bomb including women and children wounded in a bomb blast in Tasua (9th Muharram) procession at Peshawar to mark the sacrifice of Imam Hussain (AS) in Karachi.

The incident took place at Yadgar Chowk Peshawar the most sensitive area of the city, when miscreants Â thrown handgrenadeâ€™s on mourners, an infant martyred in the attack.

However, three children and seven women were taken to hospital after the incident, said Abdul Hamid Afridi, head of the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.

Police said 19 people were wounded, all of them Shia Muslims. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear