Six people were killed and 10 wounded when a suicide bomber riding on a motorbike blew himself up near a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan
Six people were killed and 10 wounded when a suicide bomber riding on a motorbike blew himself up near a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, local police chief Abdullah Jan said.He said the checkpoint was close to a camp set up by a religious political party for a public meeting in the town, located about 100 kilometres east of Peshawar. "We have recovered the body parts of the suicide bomber," he said.
The meeting was planned by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) party led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, he said, adding that the event had been cancelled. Rehman was on his way to the venue when the blast happened, party spokesman Jalil Jan told AFP.
"He is safe and the meeting has been cancelled," Jan said. "We can't immediately identify the attackers. We don't know who is involved. But we can say the target appears to be the JUI leadership," he told AFP.