Dec. 8: At least 17 people were killed in a suicide attack in a market in Kohat, a northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, on Wednesday, a senior police official said. The explosion took place at a busy bus terminal in the garrison town’s main Tirah Bazaar, the Kohat police chief, Mr Dilawar Bangash, said.
“It was a suicide blast. The death toll has risen to 17,” he said, adding that 25 others were wounded, seven of them seriously. It is the latest bombing in a long series of attacks in Pakistan blamed on networks linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The local police spokesman, Mr Fazal Naeem, said the bomber approached the door of a bus carrying passengers to the nearby tribal district of Orakzai and detonated his explosives. Earlier it appeared the bomb was planted in a vehicle parked at the main bus stand, but Mr Bangash said that “now we have found the body parts of the suicide bomber”. He said it was not clear who the target was.