Eight killed, 25 injured in Hangu suicide attack
* Taliban claim responsibility for attack * 200 kg explosives used in blast
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HANGU: At least eight people, including a policeman, were killed and 25 others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the main gate of the Doaba Police Station in Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, police sources said. It was the second attack in as many days against police in Hangu.
A Taliban spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan, claimed the responsibility for the attack over telephone from an undisclosed location.
According to the sources, a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into the Doaba Police Station, killing eight people, including a police constable Rahim Shah, and wounding 25 others, among them two women and eight police personnel.
The injured were rushed to the Combined Military Hospital and Abdur Rauf Hospital.
“Dead bodies of the seven civilians are beyond recognition,” said Doaba Police Station SHO, Aleem Khattak.
Hangu DPO, Abdur Rashid and Bomb Disposal Squad Incharge, Asadullah, said that 200-kilogramme explosive material was used in the attack, which destroyed half of the building of the police station, 18 shops, 10 nearby houses and over two dozen vehicles.
The sources said the bomber had been aiming to strike the building directly but failed to do so because of barricades that had been erected outside.
The injured policemen included Gulzar Khan, Jahangir, Matiullah, Tariq Javed, Munawar, Nazarullah Shahid and Masood.
Soon after the incident, security forces cordoned off the area.
In another incident, two security personnel were injured when a bomb planted by the side of a road in Ghaljo area of Orakzai Agency went off.
Sources said that a police team was patrolling the area on a mobile van when the roadside bomb exploded, injuring two security men seriously. The vehicle was badly damaged. The remote-controlled bomb was planted by some unidentified terrorists, the sources said, adding that in retaliation, security forces attacked suspected hideouts of terrorists with heavy shelling and killed three of them. staff report
HANGU: At least eight people, including a policeman, were killed and 25 others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the main gate of the Doaba Police Station in Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, police sources said. It was the second attack in as many days against police in Hangu.
A Taliban spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan, claimed the responsibility for the attack over telephone from an undisclosed location.
According to the sources, a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into the Doaba Police Station, killing eight people, including a police constable Rahim Shah, and wounding 25 others, among them two women and eight police personnel.
The injured were rushed to the Combined Military Hospital and Abdur Rauf Hospital.
“Dead bodies of the seven civilians are beyond recognition,” said Doaba Police Station SHO, Aleem Khattak.
Hangu DPO, Abdur Rashid and Bomb Disposal Squad Incharge, Asadullah, said that 200-kilogramme explosive material was used in the attack, which destroyed half of the building of the police station, 18 shops, 10 nearby houses and over two dozen vehicles.
The sources said the bomber had been aiming to strike the building directly but failed to do so because of barricades that had been erected outside.
The injured policemen included Gulzar Khan, Jahangir, Matiullah, Tariq Javed, Munawar, Nazarullah Shahid and Masood.
Soon after the incident, security forces cordoned off the area.
In another incident, two security personnel were injured when a bomb planted by the side of a road in Ghaljo area of Orakzai Agency went off.
Sources said that a police team was patrolling the area on a mobile van when the roadside bomb exploded, injuring two security men seriously. The vehicle was badly damaged. The remote-controlled bomb was planted by some unidentified terrorists, the sources said, adding that in retaliation, security forces attacked suspected hideouts of terrorists with heavy shelling and killed three of them. staff report
(source:DailyTimes, Pakistan)
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