[The Nation (Pak)] At least seven people were killed and three others sustained injuries in two remote-controlled kabooms near a passenger van in Hangu district... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
on Thursday, police said.
According to details, a passenger van was on its way to Hangu city from Zargari town. When it reached Dorarai Banda, one of the two bombs planted on the roadside, went
kaboom!with a bang.
Police said the passenger vehicle was a target of the terrorists. As the people were rushing to the blast site to assist the victims, another bomb went off.
As a result, a total of seven people were killed and three sustained injuries. Five of those killed were identified as Abdus Samad, Irshad, Zahid, Saad and Shafiullah while the names of the remaining two dead could not be ascertained.
The injured, Asadullah, Basir and another unidentified person, were rushed to the district headquarters hospital. The corpse count might rise as two of the injured were at death's door, the hospital sources said.
According to the bomb disposal squad, 10kg explosives were used in each bomb. Soon after the blasts, police cordoned off the area and launched a search operation with no arrest so far. No holy warrior group has grabbed credit for the kabooms.
The incident occurred in the Zargari area of Hangu district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province, around 100 kilometres southwest of the region's main city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
. The incident was confirmed by Hangu police chief Anwar Khan Kundi. Thousands of civilians have died since holy warriors rose up against the Pak state more than a decade ago.