A man was killed in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) in War Mamund tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Wednesday, according to police. Police and local residents said the explosion occurred near Zaga Deri Sewi bazaar, leaving a man seriously injured.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Niaz Muhammad told Dawn that the victim, identified as 47-year-old Najibullah, died while being transported to the Khar District Headquarters Hospital for treatment. He said the IED was planted by unidentified miscreants.
Read more…
Source: Dawn News
Sign up for the Counter-IED Report Newsletters
The latest news and insights delivered right to your inbox
Related:
- Pakistan: IEDs used in Ziarat bomb blasts, confirms CTD
June 9, 2019
Preliminary investigation into the two explosions that hit as many vehicles in Ziarat on Friday suggested that improvised explosive devices (IED) were used to carry out the terror attacks which claimed five lives and left 13 people injured. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks. Both the IEDs were attached to the vehicles with ...
- Pakistan attack: Gunmen killed five in Balochistan hotel
May 12, 2019
Pakistan’s army says gunmen who attacked a luxury hotel in Balochistan province on Saturday killed four hotel employees and a soldier. The three attackers were also killed during a siege that lasted several hours. Six people were injured. A spokesman for the Zaver Pearl-Continental Hotel in the port of Gwadar said there were few guests because of ...
- IED blast kills 3 in Pakistan
April 28, 2019
Three security personnel were killed in an IED blast at a check post in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan, police said. The explosives, which were planted close to the check post in Sheva tehsil of North Waziristan District, went off when the levies personnel reported for duty, eye witnesses said. One person was injured in ...
- Five militants, one police officer killed in Pakistan raid
April 16, 2019
Police and army commandos killed five Pakistani Taliban militants during an overnight siege at a house in the northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said on Tuesday. One police officer was killed and two wounded during the 16-hour operation. It ended when the house was destroyed by what police believe was an improvised explosive device. “It was an ...
- One bomb at a time: life in the throes of Pakistan’s Taliban
March 27, 2019
On a fateful September morning in 2013, police at Peshawar’s control centre received a call from one of its units in the suburbs. The caller said an improvised explosive device (IED) had been planted on Frontier Road, which separates Peshawar from a tribal area plagued by militant-staged bomb and sniper attacks. A policeman rushed to the bomb ...
- Pakistan: Police van targetted with IED in DI Khan, three injured
March 18, 2019
At least three people, including two policemen, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion near a police vehicle in Dera Ismail Khan’s Parowa tehsil on Monday. The police van on a routine patrol in Parowa area, which borders Dera Ghazi Khan, when the bomb planted on a bicycle went off, DI Khan District Police ...
- Four Killed in Balochistan in Second Train Attack in Two Weeks
March 18, 2019
Four people were killed and 10 injured in Pakistan on Sunday when a bomb went off on a train track in the resource-rich province of Balochistan, where separatist rebels have been fighting the security forces for years. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but ethnic Baluch separatists, fighting what they call the unfair exploitation of their province’s ...
- Roadside IED blast kills bomb disposal expert in Mohmand, Pakistan
January 24, 2019
A bomb disposal official of security forces was martyred and another injured when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off in the Safi sub-division of Mohmand tribal district on Wednesday morning. Sources in security forces and district administration confirmed the IED blast at Qayumabad area of Safi tehsil of Mohmand tribal district of KP early on ...
- Law enforcement agencies foil terror bid in NW Pakistan
January 10, 2019
Pakistani law enforcement agencies have foiled a major terror bid and recovered two roadside bombs aimed at security forces’ vehicles in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province on Thursday, local Urdu TV channels reported. The bombs were recovered from the Kulachi area of Dera Ismail Khan, a district in KPK province, said security officials, adding that ...
- Motorbike-borne IED defused in PIB Colony raid
December 31, 2018
The East Range police have responded timely to foil a terrorism bid by impounding a motorbike from PIB Colony that was fitted with an IED. East Range police chief DIG Amir Farooqi told The News that in view of the incoming new year and the recent attempts at disturbing the peace of Karachi, they had beefed ...
- Probe reveals use of IED in blast in Karachi: BDS officials
December 10, 2018
Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) officials on Sunday said that Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was used in yesterday’s blast at ‘Mehfil-e-Milad’ event held near Gulistan-e-Johar in Karachi. The BDS officials visited the bomb site and revealed that the a low intensity improvise explosive device (IED) was exploded in the ‘Mehfil-e-Milad’ event. Around 250 to 300 grams of explosive ...
- Blast kills 25 in northern Pakistan as police repel assault on Chinese consulate in Karachi
November 23, 2018
A suicide bomber killed 25 people at a market in northern Pakistan just hours after gunmen assaulted the Chinese Consulate in the southern city of Karachi, killing four. The two attacks on opposite sides of the country were likely unconnected, but they underline the myriad security challenges Pakistan faces, including those from separatists as well as ...
- Explosion in Karachi kills two, injures 10
November 16, 2018
At least two people lost their lives while 10 others were injured as an explosion took place in Quaidabad area of Karachi, police reported on Friday. According to the police, the blast took place near a crowded area under the Quaidabad flyover. It was still not confirmed as to what caused the blast or what was ...
- Pakistani army officer dies while defusing bomb: spokesman
November 7, 2018
A Pakistani army officer was killed on Wednesday while defusing an explosive device in the country’s Mohmand district, the military said. A statement from the army’s media wing the Inter-Services Public Relations said that captain Zarghaam Fareed lost his life when he was neutralizing an improvised explosive device, while a member of the bomb disposal team ...
- IED blast injures two soldiers
October 27, 2018
Peshawar: – An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast targeting the security forces in tribal district North Waziristan on Friday left at least two men in uniform seriously wounded. “At least two personnel of the security forces were injured in a remote controlled bomb blast in North Waziristan tribal district on Friday”. The officials said the vehicle ...