Peshawar, Sep 11: A senior police official in Pakistan’s Peshawar city claimed that a bomb attack on a security forces vehicle on Monday caused the deaths of one security guard and multiple injuries, including four members of the paramilitary forces.
The Frontier Constabulary (FC) troops were attacked in front of Prime Hospital on Warsak Road in this unrest-ridden province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital.
According to preliminary reports, the blast has injured three civilians and five FC officials, according to Warsak Superintendent of Police (SP) Mohammad Arshad Khan.He continued by saying that it appeared that the explosion was the result of an IED attack.
Khan stated that additional inquiries were being conducted and that the Bomb Disposal Unit’s report would provide more details about the explosion’s nature.
Recently, a series of terrorist attacks carried out by the banned terror group devastated Pakistan.
Last week, Taliban terrorists stormed two border checkpoints in the unrest-ridden Chitral district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, killing four Pakistani soldiers and injuring seven more.In 2007, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was established as an organisation for a number of militant groups.
The group, which is thought to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda, has been held accountable for a number of violent incidents that have killed people around Pakistan, including an attack on the army headquarters in 2009, robberies at military installations, and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.