A suicide bomber struck along the route of President Arif Alvi’s motorcade in Sibi, claiming the lives of six security personnel and leaving 22 others, including 19 law enforcers, wounded on Tuesday.
This is a second major suicide attack in the country within a week, as the deadly assault inside a Peshawar mosque on Friday had claimed 62 lives and injured 189 others.
The suicide bomber blew himself up near a government rest house on Jail Road after the motorcade of President Alvi and other VIPs had passed through the area on their return from the concluding ceremony of the annual Sibi festival held at Sibi Stadium, officials said.
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Source: The Dawn