[Iran Press TV Latest] A bus carrying a wedding party has hit a landmine resulting in the death of 16 women and children in Pakistan's troubled tribal region. The bus was on its way to the Mohamand Agency on the Afghan border, where security forces have been pressing an offensive against pro-Taliban insurgents for more than a year.
Two men, five women and nine children were killed. The injured were transferred to the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar.
Earlier in the day, 15 people were injured when a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the northwestern city of Peshawar, underlining the threat to civilians in a nation where more than 190 people have died during pro-Taliban-linked attacks in the past 19 days.
Meanwhile, in another incident of violence, the Pakistani Air Force confirmed that 15 security staff were wounded and two of its personnel died when a bomber blew himself up in the wealthy district of Hayatabad at an air force checkpoint, about 60 kilometers (38 miles) west of the capital Islamabad.