Five people, including three Levies personnel, were killed in a suicide attack in Mohmand Agency’s Ghalanai Tehsil on Wednesday.
Military’s media wing, Inter-Services Inter Relation (ISPR), said in a statement that two civilians were among those killed.
The military’s media wing, Inter Services Public Relations, said two civilians were among those killed.
Eight others were injured as two suicide bombers tried to enter a compound of the local political administration. When stopped, one of the attackers blew himself up outside the entrance, a senior official told The Express Tribune.
“The other attacker was shot down by Levies officials who were on guard,” the official added.
The military’s media wing, Inter Services Public Relations, said a terrorist bid was foiled in Mohmand Agency. “Security agencies had intelligence about intrusion of suicide bombers from Afghanistan inside Mohmand Agency,” ISPR said in a statement.
“One suicide bomber blew himself up once spotted and challenged by security agencies at the gate of PA office while the other was shot by sentries at the gate,” the statement added. A search operation is being carried out in the area.
The injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital. “Three of the injured are in critical condition,” Dr Shad Muhammad said.
The deceased also include a school teacher identified as Pazeer Gul.
Jamaat-ul Ahrar, a breakaway faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has claimed responsibility for the attack.
A deadly suicide attack in Lahore which claimed 13 lives – including those of two senior police officers – on Monday was described as a failure of security agencies as they failed to counter it despite a prior intelligence report.
The government and police are shifting responsibility by terming the intelligence report ‘vague’ and not ‘specific’. However, independent defence analysts are holding the security institutions responsible.
Shortly after the Lahore attack two members of a bomb disposal team were killed in Quetta, while trying to defuse a device. It was not clear if the Quetta bomb was linked to the Lahore attack.
