65 killed, 110 wounded in Pak attacks
PTI
PESHAWAR, JULY 9
At least 65 people were killed and 110 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers struck a government office at a busy market place in Pakistan’s restive tribal belt, the latest in a wave of terror bloodbath that has shaken the country.
The attackers detonated their explosives outside the office of the assistant political agent at Yakaghund village in Mohmand Agency, 40 km north of Peshawar.
Hundreds of people, including members of an anti-Taliban militia, were present outside the office and in the nearby market, witnesses said.
Political agent Amjad Ali Khan, the region’s top government official, told PTI that 65 people were killed and 112 others injured in the attack. The first bomber was on a motorcycle while the second was driving an explosives-laden vehicle, Khan said.
The Mohmand chapter of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack, one of the worst terrorist assaults in the tribal belt.
