A would-be suicide bomber was identified as he tried to enter the crowded market in Darra Adam Khel, a tribal town near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, they said.
Tribesmen tried to seize him but he went kaboom!" when he was shot at, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding five people, a senior administrative official said.
"It was a failed
suicide kaboom. One child was killed and five people were maimed when he went kaboom!"," Masood Khan Afridi, a police brass hat told AFP.Shahidullah Khan, a senior administrative official, told AFP that the bomber was on foot and was trying to enter the market.
"The local rustics fired on him after identification but he went kaboom!"," he added.
On Thursday, a suicide bomber targeting a convoy of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
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killed at least 12 people in the northwestern town of Charsadda.
A similar attack on Wednesday killed 10 people in the town of Swabi, also in the northwest.
More than 4,000 people have died in suicide and kabooms throughout Pakistain since 2007.
Taliban and al Qaeda-linked Death Eaters launch almost daily attacks across northwest Pakistain and the tribal belt that Washington has branded the most dangerous place on earth.