A series of four bomb blasts rocked the U.S. consulate in Peshawaron Monday.

This frame grab taken from Geo News channel shows smoke billowing following a huge bomb blast in Peshawar. Suspected Islamist militants have waged a series of attacks in northwest Pakistan, striking at the US consulate in Peshawar and killing 38 people at a political rally in a nearby town on Monday.

Pakistan Taliban has claimed responsibility for the multiple attacks, in which at least one people was killed and another eight were injured.

TV footage showed a big blast near a roadside shop, sending thick smoke in the air. Witnesses said they saw a car exploded with a huge blast.

Officials said the American consulate located in the cantonment area. They said an armored vehicle car of the security forces was also destroyed in one of the blasts.

The security forces, which regularly patrol in the area, opened fire shortly after the blasts, witnesses said.

Police and bomb disposal squad and other relief teams have been dispatched toward the blast site.

Emergency has been declared in the hospitals in the city. The injured were shifted to army’s hospital and no information about the casualties was provided by the army. The journalists were not allowed to go into the army’s hospital.

An army helicopter was seen flying in the area to check if any attacker was hiding in the area. The security forces made announcements, asking people to stay away from the blast sites fearing more blasts.

The blasts smashed windows of houses and offices in the area, witnesses said.

Pakistani President Asif Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the attack and said terrorists can not stop the government from fighting against them.

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