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At least five people died and 20 others were injured after a blast targeting a police van rocked the Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, police officials said.
The blast took place in Tank Adda in the city near a police van, Geo TV reported on Friday. According to the report, those injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, while of the those wounded are in a critical condition.
Gunshots were also heard after the explosion, officials were quoted as saying.
As per initial media reports, the explosive device was planted on a motorbike. “The bomb exploded close to the route of a police patrol in the city,” police official Mohammad Adnan was quoted by Reuters as saying.
He added that it was not immediately clear if the incident was the result of a suicide attack or a bomb planted nearby.
The KP bomb disposal unit as well as law enforcement officials immediately arrived on site after the explosion.
The city of Dera Ismail Khan, where the blast took place, lies on the edge of lawless tribal districts bordering Afghanistan that have long been home to Islamist militants both domestic and foreign.
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Updated: 03 Nov 2023, 02:47 PM IST
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