NORTH WAZIRISTAN - At least three security personnel of Frontier Corps (FC) were martyred and five others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a security check post in North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday.
According to details, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive-filled double-cabin vehicle at FC check post on Bannu-Mir Ali Road at tehsil Shawa in North Waziristan. As a result, three security personnel were martyred while five others sustained injuries.
The injured were shifted to Bannu CMH. Security forces, soon after the explosion, cordoned off the area and launched a search operation; however, no arrest was made. Bannu-Mir Ali Road was closed for traffic. A little-known group, Ansarul Mujahideen, has claimed responsibility for the attack. Spokesman for Ansarul Mujahideen, Abu Baseer, said their group had targeted the FC check post. Talking to a foreign news agency from an undisclosed location, he said the attack was carried out to revenge the death of TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud.
AFP adds: At least two security personnel embraced martyrdom and seven were wounded in a car suicide attack,” a security official in Peshawar, the main city of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told AFP. “Firing inside the building has stopped but building was damaged due to intensity of the blast."
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-filled car into a security checkpoint as militants armed with guns stormed a nearby building in Shawa area of North Waziristan tribal district, killing two personnel, officials said.
The post is run jointly by the paramilitary Frontier Corps and tribal police and the adjacent building houses more than 40 security forces.
“Firing inside the building has stopped but building was damaged due to intensity of the blast,” a local security official in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan tribal district and a hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants, told AFP
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Al-Qaeda-linked militants have led a bloody campaign against Pakistan in recent years, carrying out hundreds of attacks on security forces and government targets, concentrated largely in the northwest.