At least eight people were killed in Pakistan on Wednesday, including a provincial law minister after a suicide bomber broke into his home in the country’s northwest.

At least eight people were killed in Pakistan on Wednesday, including a provincial law minister after a suicide bomber broke into his home in the country’s northwest.

Officials said that more than 25 people were also wounded in the attack which took place in the village of Kulachi.

Israr Ullah Gandapur, law minister for the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was meeting constituents in his home when the bomber struck, provincial health minister Shaukat Yousafzai told AFP.

Mohammad Yousaf Khan, a police official in area told AFP: "I am on the site and I have seen his dead body."

Yousafzai, the health minister, said the suicide bomber had managed to break into the area despite "very tight security".

The attack was later claimed by little-known militant group Ansarul Mujahideen in a phone call to AFP.

"It was revenge for the martyrdom of some of our mujahideen," Abu Baseer, a spokesman for the group said, referring to the killing of militants during a daring jailbreak in July.

Taliban militants armed with guns, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and bombs bombarded the prison in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, before escaping with some 250 inmates after a three-hour shootout that left 13 dead.