PESHAWAR, Feb 19: Assistant Political Agent of Landi Kotal Khalid Mumtaz Kundi, who was injured in the Monday’s twin suicide blasts in Khyber House, succumbed to his wounds, raising the death toll to seven.

Sources said that the APA had received multiple injuries in the suicide bombings. He was hit directly when a suicide bomber detonated his vest, they added.

The injured official was shifted to combined military hospital in critical condition where he succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday.

Six people including four personnel of Levies Force were killed in the twin suicide blasts in Khyber House, the office of political agent of Khyber Agency situated on Bara Road in Peshawar.

Meanwhile, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Eng Shaukatullah Khan visited the bereaved family at Hayatabad and offered fateha for the departed soul.

Senator Hafiz Abdul Malik from Khyber Agency was also present on the occasion. The governor expressed sympathies with Haji Mohammad Aslam Kundi and Inamullah Kundi, the brothers of the killed official, and other members of the bereaved family. — Bureau Report