Twin suicide attacks: Kohat Tunnel re-opens following blast

Soldiers examine the wreckage inside the Kohat Tunnel that was closed following the blast, while a survivor talks on the phone in a hospital in Peshawar. PHOTOS: AFP

Soldiers examine the wreckage inside the Kohat Tunnel that was closed following the blast, while a survivor talks on the phone in a hospital in Peshawar. PHOTOS: AFP Soldiers examine the wreckage inside the Kohat Tunnel that was closed following the blast, while a survivor talks on the phone in a hospital in Peshawar. PHOTOS: AFP

PESHAWAR: Kohat Tunnel, closed following two bomb blasts that ripped through it on Friday, was reopened for 24 hours on Saturday evening.

Commissioner Kohat division Khalid Khan Umerzai told The Express Tribune that the tunnel was opened for passenger vehicles for around 24 hours. Cargo vehicles, however, will not be allowed to pass through the tunnel.

At least five people were killed and 19 others injured when two explosives-laden trucks were detonated by suicide bombers, one inside the tunnel and the other at its entrance. The attackers had entered the tunnel from the Darra Adamkhel side, Umerzai said.

Local sources said that the two attacks that occurred at 12:30am on Saturday, badly damaged the Pak-Japan Friendship Tunnel, which links the southern districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with Peshawar.

They said that the first blast occurred some 600 metres inside the tunnel when a Bedford truck was detonated by a suicide attacker.

The second truck, an oil tanker, was detonated on the checkpost outside the tunnel, unmanned at the time.

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