And boom goes the dynamite

At least 12 people have been killed in a multiple bombing Tuesday afternoon at a movie theater in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. Syed Jamil Shah, press officer for the city's Lady Reading Hospital, said at least 17 others were injured. A senior Peshawar police officer, Ijaz Ahmed, said three hand grenades hit the Shama Cinema, which is infamous in the city for showing pornographic movies. One blast was inside the cinema, and the other two outside, he told reporters. The movie theater had received security threats, and police had advised that metal detectors should be set up outside it. This advice was not heeded, which was actually quite stupid. They have them at many airports around the world and a lot of schools in the US, but they could always be of use in cinemas. Metal detectors could've stopped incidents like a shooting in Latvia that took place three years ago after a screening of Black Swan, the Batman shootings in Colorado in July 2012, and last month's shooting during a screening of Lone Survivor in Florida.