Nine killed in blast in northwest Pakistan market, police say
Rescue workers said 9 people were killed and about 30 were wounded as police blamed the blast on a bomb-rigged rickshaw.
- On Tuesday, a bomb rigged to a rickshaw exploded in a bazaar in Lakki Marwat, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing nine people and wounding more than two dozen others, local police chief Azmat Ullah said.
- Suspicion for the market attack likely falls on the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which has intensified its violent campaign against Pakistani security forces in recent years, straining relations with Afghanistan.
- The latest violence follows a separate assault days ago in the nearby Bannu district, where 15 police officers were killed in a suicide bombing and gun attack, prompting Islamabad to summon a senior Afghan diplomat.
- Pakistani authorities have long accused the Afghan Taliban government of sheltering TTP militants, though Kabul denies the allegation, maintaining it does not permit militants to use its soil for launching attacks.
- Despite sporadic cross-border clashes, China mediated peace talks between the two nations in early April, although violence has continued at a lower intensity than prior periods of conflict.
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A major suicide attack took place in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden autorickshaw. The blast killed at least nine people, including police officers, and injured 33 others. The condition of several injured is reported to be critical.
Around 30 people were injured and the attack threatens to exacerbate tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan
A rickshaw loaded with explosives blew up in a market in Pakistan, killing at least seven people, according to other sources, nine, and injuring more than twenty.
Pakistan: Blast in KP’s Lakki Marwat district claims 7 lives, 2 policemen killed and 23 injured
NEW DELHI: At least seven people, including two policemen, were killed on May 12 in a blast in the Serai Naurang tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district, police said. Lakki Marwat district police officer’s spokesperson Qudratullah Khan, in a statement, said that 23 others had also been injured in the incident. Commenting on the nature of the incident, he said that it was not yet clear whether an explosive-laden loader rickshaw was p…
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