Five people, including an assistant commissioner, were killed and 11 others were injured when a bomb blast ripped through a government vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Wednesday, media reports said.
Pakistan’s Samaa TV said the blast took place in Nawagai area of Bajaur’s Khar tehsil.
The report said the injured have been taken to hospital for treatment, but many are in critical condition.
Quoting local officials, the TV said the nature of the blast is not yet known and that an investigation is underway.
Bajaur District Police Officer Waqas Rafique told Dawn.com that five people, including two policemen and a civilian, were killed in the explosion targeting a government vehicle on Nawagai Road in Siddiqabad railway attack area of Khar tehsil.
“The blast was so intense that the vehicle targeted was completely destroyed,” he said, adding that 11 people injured in the blast were immediately transported to Khar Hospital for treatment.
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