BYEI: At least 13 bodies including those of women and children lay in a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos on Wednesday after an attack by raiders armed with machetes, a Reuters witness said.

Most of the bodies were women who appeared to have been cut by machete blows. Around three huts were burned in the overnight raid on the village of Byei, in the Riyom area 30 km (20 miles) south of Jos, the witness said.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan News: At least two persons were killed and eight others were injured in blast at Jail Road of Peshawar near sessions court premises.

According to reports the explosion might be a car bomb blast. The clouds of smoke seen rising from the place of the blast.

The relief and rescue teams have reached to the spot of bombing in central area of Peshawar.

According to an eyewitness a bomber detonated his explosives near the court. At least three cars were destroyed in the blast.

The bomber wanted to enter in the court building, the witness said.