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| Bomb kills QWP leader, three others in Buner |
| 2014-02-24 |
| [Pak Daily Times] A roadside kaboom targeting a local leader of a political party in the country's northwest killed three people and maimed two others on Saturday, police said. Police said the incident took place in Buner district when the remote-controlled bomb hit the vehicle of Adalat Khan, a local leader of Qaumi Watan Party, killing him along with two associates. "Adalat Khan and his two associates have been killed. Two others in the car were critically injured," Asif Iqbal, a senior police official told AFP. No myrmidon group grabbed credit for the attack, but a local intelligence official told AFP that Khan had supported an anti-Taliban village militia in 2009. The head of that militia was later killed in a suicide kaboom in November 2012. Police and Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) reached the site of kaboom and cordoned off the area. The BDU later declared the area clear of any other bomb. The injured and bodies were moved to a nearby hospital. Separately, a suspected terrorist was killed in a kaboom in 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. on Saturday. Police said that the blast took place in Nasir Bagh locality of Peshawar. Police said that evidence had been collected from the scene of kaboom and investigation was in progress. |
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