kaboom!in Landi Kotal Bazaar of Khyber Agency
on Tuesday.Officials said that explosives fitted in a car were detonated with a remote controlled device when a number of Levies and Khasadar personnel and civilians were present in Bacha Khan Chowk at around midday.
The kaboom caused death to two Levies personnel and a shopkeeper on the spot. The killed were identified as Gulzar and Roza Khan, both Levies personnel, and Mohammad Ikram a cloth merchant.
Local thug group Abdullah Ezzam Brigade grabbed credit for the blast and said that their target was the Khasadar and Levies personnel posted at the square.
The group threatened to carry out more attacks against security forces. The security forces recently conducted operation in Karamna, Landi Kotal, in which 12 bully boyz including four would-be jacket wallahs were killed.
The eight injured were admitted to a local hospital where doctors said their condition was stable. The local administration said that it would bear treatment cost of the injured.
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Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
, One passenger was injured in a roadside kaboom blast on Tuesday, officials said.
The passenger coach, going from Parachinar to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, was damaged when a remote controlled device went off at Pir Qayum village near Sadda Town. A women passenger received injuries in the blast while others remained unhurt.
The Thall-Parachinar Road was recently reopened for traffic after restoration of peace in the area. Local people condemned the blast and demanded of the government to take action against the perpetrators.
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Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency, bully boyz blew up a government primary school for boys in Safi tehsil on the night between Monday and Tuesday.
Officials said that the two-room school in Gurbaz Gagezai area of Safi tehisl was completely destroyed in the blast. The kaboom also shattered windowpanes of several houses in the area.
A front man for Mohmand Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.
In a subsequent operation, the political administration tossed in the clink six rustics, including Malik Attaullah and his two sons, on suspicion of their involvement in the crime.
In Nowshera, unidentified cut-throats blew up a pylon on Tarbela-Peshawar transmission line at Baba Ji Kallay on the night between Monday and Tuesday.
Police said that the pylon was blown up when four huge kabooms were heard in the locality, creating panic among people.