PESHAWAR, May 28 (APP): At least five persons were killed and around 100  injured when two simultaneous blasts ripped through historic Qissa Khwani bazaar followed by firing by the snipers Thursday afternoon, police said. An official of district police said that bomb occurred in front of Yasir Hotel in congested Qissa Khwani bazar where large numbers of people were busy in shopping.

The dead have been identified by the hospital authorities as Javed,  Saifullah, Imtiaz, Naeem  Baacha. The condition of five injured is critical as 100 have been brought to the LRH, a doctor at the hospital told APP.

Emergency has been declared in hospitals. Police cordoned off the area and started investigation. The explosion is third in a row in Peshawar city during last two weeks that claimed almost two dozen lives.  The police believed to have arrested one terrorist and killed two others after fierce shoot out continuing till filing of this report.

The Chief of Capital City Police Sifwat Ghayyur (Additional IG) who is personally taking part in the operation, told that search operation continuing and urging the people to keep away from the site of the shooting. The routes connecting City with cantonment have been blocked as safety measure.

Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has ordered inquiry into the blasts in the heart of provincial capital.

The Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters at the site of shooting that the blood game is about to end and the terrorists are at the run.

IGP NWFP Malik Naveed told media men that we have to eliminate terrorist at all cost and could not be deterred through such cowardly acts. He denied disclosing the names of the arrested terrorists. Operation, he said successfully continuing under the supervision of CCPO Sifwat Ghayyur. He said the police could not keep an eye over individual but doing its utmost to maintain public order About Swat Operation, the police chief said, it is nearing to its logical end and the Malakand division would be cleared of the unwanted elements soon.