Three security personnel among 7 injured in attack
TTP spokesman claims killing 3 personnel, but hospital officials say all injured out of danger
According to preliminary reports, security forces’ convoy was the prime target. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
BANNU:
At least seven people, including three security personnel and four passers-by, were injured in two back-to-back blasts in Jani Khel area of Bannu district on Sunday, a local police officer told The Express Tribune via telephone.
The security personnel were going from Bannu Cantonment towards North Waziristan when their convoy was attacked. First an improvised explosive device planted on the roadside blew up near the convoy and then a motorcycle laden with explosives parked nearby. The blasts rattled the convoy and sent shockwaves across the entire area.
Security forces arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area.
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They shifted the injured personnel and civilians to the Civil Military Hospital Bannu Cantt and Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital, where they are said to be out of danger.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in an audio message.
In the message, TTP spokesman Abdullah Waziristani said, “Three of the security staffers have been killed and three others injured in the attack.”
However, the hospital officials denied such a report, saying “we have received seven injured [and admitted them] to two medical facilities”.
The injured included Safeer, Ijaz, Shabir, Sher Aman Khan, Din Muhammad, Sifatullah, and an unidentified elderly person, a medical officer said.
Several suspected persons had been arrested in the Jani Khel area till the filing of this news story.
At least seven people, including three security personnel and four passers-by, were injured in two back-to-back blasts in Jani Khel area of Bannu district on Sunday, a local police officer told The Express Tribune via telephone.
The security personnel were going from Bannu Cantonment towards North Waziristan when their convoy was attacked. First an improvised explosive device planted on the roadside blew up near the convoy and then a motorcycle laden with explosives parked nearby. The blasts rattled the convoy and sent shockwaves across the entire area.
Security forces arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area.
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They shifted the injured personnel and civilians to the Civil Military Hospital Bannu Cantt and Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital, where they are said to be out of danger.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in an audio message.
In the message, TTP spokesman Abdullah Waziristani said, “Three of the security staffers have been killed and three others injured in the attack.”
However, the hospital officials denied such a report, saying “we have received seven injured [and admitted them] to two medical facilities”.
The injured included Safeer, Ijaz, Shabir, Sher Aman Khan, Din Muhammad, Sifatullah, and an unidentified elderly person, a medical officer said.
Several suspected persons had been arrested in the Jani Khel area till the filing of this news story.