Suicide bomber blasts explosive-laden vehicle in Pakistan!
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Peshawar: A suicide bomber's explosive-laden vehicle was triggered off near a Frontier Corps check post in northwest Pakistan, injuring three security personnel.
The incident took place on Saturday. The vehicle was intercepted before it could reach the Kanori post in the Tank district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Over a dozen militants launched an attack on the security forces' post, but the assault was successfully repelled, officials said.
It was an attempt to breach the post, which was thwarted, an official from the Tank district said.
It was only in mid-November that a powerful car bomb accidentally detonated at the house of a Pakistani Taliban militant in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two children and five suspected militants, police said.
The Associated Press reported that the explosion took place before dawn in the city of Mir Ali in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when a man identified as a local commander of the militants, Rasool Jan, was fitting a bomb in a car at his house, police official Irfan Khan said.
He said other militants from the Pakistani Taliban group quickly arrived at the scene and removed the bodies of the insurgents who died. Authorities later found the bodies of two children in the rubble of the house, which collapsed in the explosion.
The blast also badly damaged several nearby homes and wounded 14 people, including women. Some of the injured were in critical condition in a hospital, Khan said, but he did not provide details.