Eight FC men injured in Peshawar suicide attack

Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan claims responsibility for the attack on FC vehicle in Hayatabad

ISLAMABAD:

Eight personnel were injured and an attacker was killed in a suicide blast near a paramilitary force vehicle in Peshawar on Tuesday, police officials said.

Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, a newly founded militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack.

"One [was] martyr[ed], seven injured but all stable," a high-ranking police official said, on condition of anonymity.

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Hayatabad Medical Complex Medical Director Prof Shehzad Akbar Khan confirmed that the hospital received two people who were wounded by the explosion and that both were in stable condition.

He said the remaining injured were taken to another hospital, Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

The explosion was a suicide attack that hit a vehicle of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Peshawar, police said.

At least eight people were injured on Tuesday when explosives hit a vehicle of the Frontier Corps (FC) near Shalman Park, Hayatabad in Peshawar.

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Pakistan's army said on Friday it was seriously concerned that militants had found safe havens in neighbouring Afghanistan and threatened to take an "effective response" two days after 12 of its soldiers died in two attacks.

The terrorists have stepped up attacks since revoking a ceasefire agreement with the government in late 2022, including the bombing of a mosque in Peshawar that killed more than 100 people earlier this year.

Last week, the same militant group attacked a military base in Balochistan.

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At least seven soldiers and one civilian were killed in the intense fighting that ensued. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) revealed that militants were cornered into a building complex and ultimately six of them were killed.

The ISPR revealed that a Frontier Corps (FC) Camp in Muslim Bagh area in Northern Balochistan was attacked in the early hours of Friday.

"Commander 12 Corps is supervising the security forces operations being conducted at Muslim Bagh area in Balochistan where the terrorists have been cornered into a building complex," the military sources said, adding that at least two of them have already been killed.