PESHAWAR: At least six people were injured in a blast in Peshawar’s Hayatabad area on Tuesday, police said, adding that the target of the attack was a convoy of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC).

It was an attack on an FC convoy that was moving through Hayatabad’s phase 6, said Cantt Superintendent of Police (SP) Waqas Rafi while speaking to the media near the site of the blast.

Footage being broadcast on television shows a crowd of people on the road where the blast purportedly took place. The charred remains of a vehicle can be seen in the distance.

SP Rafi confirmed that six people were injured in the blast who he said were taken to a nearby hospital.

A bomb disposal squad was collecting evidence from the scene to ascertain the nature of the incident, he added.

In his media talk, he said “we are looking into the matter and collecting further details. The area has been cordoned off”.

“We will get to the bottom of this matter, and the culprits involved in the incident will be exposed,” he pledged.

Separately, medical director of the Hayatabad Medical Complex, professor Shehzad Akbar Khan, confirmed to Reuters that the hospital received two people who were wounded by the explosion and that both were in stable condition.

He said the remaining injured were taken to Combined Military Hospital.

While the nature of the blast has yet to be conclusively ascertained, no one has taken responsibility for it.

Pakistan has seen an uptick in terror activities, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, after the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan ended its ceasefire with the government in November last year.