In a bazaar in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, a bomb attached to a rickshaw detonated, killing at least nine people and injuring over two dozen more, according to authorities. This is the most recent indication of the increasing violence in the area that borders Afghanistan. According to local police chief Azmat Ullah, the attack happened in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Lakki Marwat district. He claimed that among the dead were a woman and two traffic police officers.
Ullah stated that traffic police personnel appeared to be the objective of the attack, but he did not elaborate. Nearby stores were also destroyed by the bombing. He said that the majority of the injured and deceased were bystanders. People carry an injured blast victim on a stretcher to a hospital in Bannu after a suicide attack in the Sarai Naurang area of Pakistan’s Lakki Marwat district on Tuesday. AFP
Suspicion in such attacks often falls on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, which has intensified its campaign against Pakistani security forces in recent years. The organization is connected with but distinct from the Taliban administration in Afghanistan.
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