Kohat: At least 16 people were killed and more than 40 others injured in a suicide blast in Pakistan’s tribal region, police said on Saturday.
According to the police the blast took place in the main bazaar of Darra Adam Khail which left 10 people dead and several others injured. They said that a suicide bombers rammed an explosive laden vehicle with the office of Aman Lashkar.
The dead and injured were being taken to hospitals in Peshawar and Kohat. The police said a suicide bomber targeted a base of Aman Lashkar, anti-Taliban militia, located near the Janan Market. Police said 16 shops were completely destroyed in the blast. Security forces rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area.
Darra Adam Khel is located between Kohat and Peshawar and very close to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
AFP adds; A suicide bomber on Saturday blew up a car at a crowded market in a northwestern Pakistani tribal town, killing at least 13 people and wounding 23 others, officials said.
The blast ripped through the main market in Darra Adam Khel, near to a local anti-insurgent peace committee office, the officials added.
“At least 13 people were killed and 23 others were wounded,” information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Mian Iftikhar Hussain told AFP.
The target was the local peace committee, he added.
Two other officials confirmed the bombing and the death toll and said some of the wounded were shifted to other cities for treatment as local health facilities were not sufficient.
Nobody claimed immediately claimed the responsibility for the attack, they added.
The peace committee comprised a breakaway group of former militants who ditched their Taliban colleagues and formed a militia supporting local elders and government efforts against militancy, a local intelligence official said.
Semi-autonomous Darra Adam Khel lies between the northwestern towns of Peshawar and Kohat and has experienced several suicide attacks and bombings blamed on Taliban militants.
Taliban militants on Tuesday shot and wounded a teenage Pakistani children’s rights activist as she boarded a school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat.
The shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai who campaigned for the right to an education has been denounced worldwide and by the Pakistani authorities, who have offered a reward of more than $100,000 for the capture of her attackers.
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