Separate blasts kill at least nine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: police

Zahir Shah Sherazi Published July 8, 2013

PESHAWAR: At least nine people, including two bomb disposal officers, were killed Monday in two separate explosions in restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Station House Officer (SHO) Doaba police station Rahim Khan said a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into the vehicle of a tribal elder in KP’s Hangu district, killing seven people.

Ten other people were also wounded in the blast near a bus stand in Hangu's Doaba tehsil.

The explosion also destroyed seven other vehicles.

The injured and the dead were shifted to a local hospital as law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area and launched their investigation.

Sources said local tribal elder Malik Habibullah Khan was the intended target of the blast.

News agency AFP quoted local police chief Sajjad Khan as saying that Malik Habibullah was not in the car when the bomb exploded.

No militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Meanwhile, at least two bomb disposal officers were killed while attempting to defuse a bomb in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swabi district.

District Police Officer Dr Mian Muhammad Saeed said that six bombs were planted to target a government school in Jamalabad area of Swabi.

The bomb disposal unit officials were defusing the road-side bombs when one of the devices exploded, killing both officers on the spot.

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Maqbool Basha

Jul 08, 2013 06:56pm

Somebody claim responsibility for the blasts, so what next, nothing.

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Muhammad Taqi

Jul 08, 2013 07:19pm

Salute to the brave officers who embraced Shahadat while trying to defuse those bombs. Will the political leader come out of its insensitive behavior and tackle this issue head on. How many dead bodies more do they need to think of an action?

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Javed

Jul 08, 2013 08:52pm

Mr Imran Khan, please bring the situation under control urgently. You promised having the right formula and approach to Pakistan's problems as part of your party's guaranteed commitment. The ball is in your court, Sir.

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Ahmer

Jul 08, 2013 09:19pm

When will Gen Kayani say enough is enough and go after these beats seriously?

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Haider

Jul 08, 2013 09:33pm

How many suicide attacks Imran Khan & Nawaz Sharif need before realizing that negotiation can not be done with these ruthless Taliban. How long are we going to blame foreign involvement??? They both should fully support of drone attacks and request the Pakistan's army to crush them on ground in KP.

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zeeshan

Jul 08, 2013 10:18pm

Salute to the people of Bomb Disposal Squad they put their live on certain death row while saving people they will never even meet. May Allah Bless Them.

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US Centcom

Jul 08, 2013 10:53pm

We stand by the nation of Pakistan during these testing times. The terrorists continue to claim innocent lives in their bid to destabilize the nation. It would be safe to say that their terrorist operations have spread throughout the country. We just witnessed an act of terror in Old Anarkali's food street area of Lahore on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring 37 others. The seriousness of the situation requires us to remain unified against the enemies of peace, and refrain from indulging in conspiracy theories that let these terrorists off the hook. We repeat what Jen Psaki, Department of State Spokesperson, said recently:

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zeeshan

Jul 08, 2013 10:57pm

I salute these brave personnel of bomb disposal squad they put their lives on a certain death row to save people they will never meet. May Allah Bless them.

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Ayaz

Jul 08, 2013 11:58pm

@Maqbool Basha: And think about the leadership which cannot issue a statement of condemnation.... what a hopeless leadership KPK got.

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Isupzai

Jul 09, 2013 09:10am

People go on acting as if this is business as usual. This is not. The public can do little to make a strategic or tactical impact against the miscreants, BUT, if the government comes up with a plan that includes the public, as its eyes and ears - the Public is so fed up, that this could be a fruitful collaboration of timely information exchange. People are hungry for leadership. If they could find leadership they would walk across deserts and drink the sand to obtain it. But unfortunately our leaders lack the kind of imagination that even the miscreants display. In the end, we all turn towards divine intervention, something that has slim probabilities of surfacing any time soon. All the ordinary person can hope for is to not be at the wrong place at the wrong time. In a country where everything is wrong, this maybe a difficult expectation. What a juxtaposition of values: one set of people are dying in the streets, their blood flowing out their veins in vain, while the other group are busy depositing vast sums of black money in Dubai. I bet they don't even know the names of the dead and the dying. Even if *you* succeed in living to be an old man in this place, what is the future for your children, or your grandchildren? Does anyone even care?

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