Pakistan: 3 children, soldiers killed in suicide blast near Miranshah
Islamabad (Pakistan), May 15: At least six people, including three children, were killed in a suspected suicide blast in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, said Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday.
The Pakistan military's media affairs wing, in a statement, identified the soldiers who lost their lives to the blast as 33-year-old Lance Havaldar Zubair Qadir belonging from Pakpattan, 22-year-old Sepoy Qasim Maqsood from Multan and 21-year-old Sepoy Uzair Asfar from Haripur. The three children who were killed in the have been identified as four-year-old Anum, eight-year-old Ahsan and 11-year-old Ahmed Hassan.
According to the statement, Pakistani intelligence agencies are investigating the case in order to find the bomber and his accomplices, reported the Dawn newspaper.
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Meanwhile, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, so far. However, security agencies blame the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has long been targeting the security forces reportedly from across the border.
Following a large-scale military attack in the northwestern tribal belt, primarily North Waziristan, the TTP was driven toward Afghanistan in 2014.
The group has been operating from the Afghan side of the border since then, according to Pakistan's military.
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