An inquiry committee has been constituted to probe into the Friday blast in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, which left seven people killed and 35 others injured.

The local GEO TV reported Saturday that police officer Qazi Jalim-u-Rehman headed the inquiry committee to investigate into the incident.

The bomb went off in the crowded Firdaus bazaar at 17:14 local time (12:14 GMT), 20 minutes before the Iftar. The injured included five minors and as many female vendors, who were selling different items at their makeshift stalls outside the Jinnah Park in Peshawar, some 150 kilometers west from Islamabad.

The blast occurred just opposite the historical Balahisar Fort, the headquarters of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps, and close to a crowded vegetable and fruit market. Sensitive gas installations are located close to the site of the blast and destruction could have been heavy had the bomb struck them.

Source: Xinhua