At least 13 soldiers were killed in a suicidal attack in the northwest part of the country, the AFP report, which was reported on Saturday by local administration officials and police officials. The report also stated that 29 people were injured in the attack, including civilians.
“The suicide bomber thrust into the military convoy of the explosive. The explosion killed 13 soldiers, injured 10 army staff and 19 civilians,” said the local official of the local administration in the Khyber province of Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan in North Waziristan.
“The explosion also caused the roofs of two houses to collapse and injured six children,” said a police officer published in the AFP district. He said that 16 soldiers were killed and increased the previous death victim 13.
According to the report, the condition of four injured soldiers is critical, the administrative official said.
The attack was claimed by a suicide bomber wing of the armed group Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a faction of Pakistani Taliban.
5 children injured in an explosion of a shell
At least fourteen people, including five children, were injured on Saturday when Malta fired from an unpublished place hit the house in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, according to sources.
Shell Malta exploded in a house in the village of Kachhi’s friend in the province of the province of Khyber then then, partially damaged it, the PTI press agency reported.
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Among the 14 injured people were five children aged 5-11 years, sources said. The inhabitants of the village saved the injured from the damaged house and moved them to the hospital for treatment.
Local authorities initiated the incident investigation, the report added.
Past attacks in Pakistan
Pakistan has witnessed a sharp increase in violence in his regions bordering on Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021, accusing his western neighbor that his land allowing soil to attack against Pakistan.
Since the beginning of the year, about 290 people, mostly security officials, have been killed by armed groups fighting against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan government since the beginning of the year, according to the sum of AFP.
American Congressman Bill Huiznga warned on Friday that Afghanistan again became a “safe refuge for terrorist groups”, which represents a growing threat to South and Central Asia, and further, Khaama Press reported.
He emphasized the hearing entitled “Evaluation of the Landscape of Terrorist Threats in South and Central Asia and exploring opportunities for cooperation” that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan from 2021 significantly shifted the regional security balance. He blamed the departure strategy at Biden Administration for allowing terrorist networks to regroup under the control of the Taliban, as stated by Khaama Press.
Specifically, he expressed concern about growing groups such as Isis-Khorasan and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). According to reports in Kham Press, he noticed a recent increase in Pakistan in violence and noticed an increase in fatal attacks, including a recent attack in Pahalgam Jammu and Kashmir, who considered proof of continuing uprising in the region.
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