Pakistan Blast
Pakistan: 6 die as blasts rock Swat, Kohat
Swat: Two districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan were rocked by blasts within a span of a few hours on Tuesday evening, targeting a police station in Kohat and a former peace committee head and police officials in Swat, media reports said on Wednesday.
Six persons, including a former Aman Committee head and two policemen, were killed when a remote-controlled bomb struck their vehicle in the Ghlo Kandaw area of Kabal Tehsil in the Swat valley, reports Dawn News.
Former peace committee head Idrees Khan, two police guards Ramail and Tauheed, and a child were on their way from Kotakay to Bandai village when the bomb, planted on a dirt road, went off, leaving the four people dead on the spot. Two pedestrians were also killed in the blast. One of them was later identified as Sanaullah, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
Rescue 1122 officials rushed the injured people to hospital for treatment.
Later, it was known that all the people had died onspot.
A statement issued by the outlawed TTP claimed responsibility for the attack, mentioning that Idrees Khan had been on their hit-list for nearly 13 years, reports Dawn News.
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