PESHAWAR: At least six civilians were killed and eight others, including three security personnel, injured in a remote controlled blast in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan on Tuesday.
Official sources informed that a motorcycle laden with explosives, parked on a roadside in Khadi area of Mir Ali exploded as an Army convoy traveling from Miranshah to Bannu passed through the area. “The bomb exploded exactly at the time when a vehicle carrying security personnel was reached the spot. Six persons were killed on the spot. The injured included three security recruits,” an official said on condition of anonymity. One source reported that three of the dead were civilians traveling on a motorcycle rickshaw. An unconfirmed report suggested that that the other three persons killed in the attack were recruits traveling on the targeted military vehicle. The injured were shifted to the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Miranshah, the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan. Heavy contingent of law enforcers reached the blast site and cordoned off the area. A search operation was launched immediately after the attack.
Meanwhile, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti claimed to have arrested two suspected facilitators of the suicide attack on DIG Telecommunications Hamid Shakeel Sabir in Quetta last month. In a joint press conference with police and Frontier Constabulary (FC) officials in the provincial capital on Tuesday, Bugti said the suspects, identified as Mehmood and his accomplice Saleem, were arrested from Chaman. The suspects were involved in bringing suicide bombers from Afghanistan, and they were also involved in other terrorist attacks in the province, said Bugti.
Published in Daily Times, December 6th 2017.
