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Roadside bomb kills 5 in northwest Pakistan

Pakistani border security personnel prepare to deploy to the Afghan border at a camp on the Chaman border, May 5, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

A roadside bomb has killed at least five people and wounded several others in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Mohammad Iqbal Khan, who is a Pakistani government official, said on Monday that a remote-controlled bomb was detonated in Tirah Valley in the Khyber tribal region as volunteers from a government-backed militia group were moving into the area.

Khan said the attack took place in a remote area of the valley and the wounded were being transported to a hospital in the region.

Khyber News Agency reported that the people targeted in the attack were workers of a peace committee.

No group has claimed responsibility yet, but militants from the Taliban and Daesh groups have carried out such attacks in the past.

The holy shrine of the 13th-century Muslim Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar is seen a day after a bomb blew up at the shrine, in the town of Sehwan in Sindh Province, Pakistan, February 17, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

In mid-February, a Daesh assailant staged an attack on the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Shrine in the city of Sehwan, where a large number of people had gathered for a special Sufi ceremony. The blast killed 88 people, including 20 children, and wounded some 250 more.

Pakistan’s army is battling militants in tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.


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