Security officers stand guard near the blast site in Peshawar. PHOTO: MUHAMMAD IQBAL/EXPRESS
PESHAWAR: At least four people were killed and 11 other sustained injuries when a suicide bomber targeted an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) registration camp at Tehmash Khan Stadium, Dalazak Road on Sunday afternoon.
SSP Operation Najeebjur Rehman confirmed the four deaths and 11 injured.
“The suicide bomber fired at the Khasadar sentry and then blew himself up, killing four,” he said.
The camp was set up for IDPs from Tirah Valley in a football stadium and the 22-year-old suicide bomber entered the stadium posing as an IDP. He then detonated his jacket containing eight to nine kilogrammes of explosive material.
A mosque located inside the stadium and nearby buildings were also damaged as a result of the explosion.
Police cordoned off the area and started collecting evidence from the blast site for investigation.
The injured were taken to the Lady Reading Hospital for medical assistance. Some of the injured are in critical condition.
According to eyewitnesses, the unidentified suicide bomber opened fire before he detonated his explosive jacket.
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very sad.
CM Khattak has flown by Copter to stage a Drama in Islamabad....Big shame on Tabdeeli!
@sunny:
Not exactly true Sir; there is a Resistance in the entire territory of the Pashtuns, from Afghanistan to KPK and Baluchistan. Remember the lesson of history often igniored is that it is the Resistance at the end which succeeds and not Force. The WW1, the WW2, and Vietnam and many others are the glaring examples..
Rex Minor
It is not possible to counter these sorts of atracks coz kpk is in state of war over last ten years.
@Aalia: Will u plz tell the procedure how to counter sucide attacks?
@Saeed @Aalia:
Who exactly is responsible for the seccurity in KPK? Not the army or the non residents such as Imran Khan, but the people and the KPK communities. They must organise the poiitical stand and create No Go areas for the combatants including the military and other foreign elements. This is practiced in the Americas and the European cities.
Rex Minor
May god bless their souls. May allah bring us all some sanity and respite to the suffering.
I wonder where the KPK CM is today!?
@Aalia: KPK Machinery? Has he taken CM, ministers, police and bureaucrats along with him?
And PTI is busy organizing dharnas... sigh
and Imran Khan alongwith entire KPK government machinery is busy at D-chowk. indeed vision of 'naya pakistan' came true.