Pakistani Interior Minister wounded, 12 killed in attack

Source: Associated Press

BREAKING NEWS
Updated: 8 minutes ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide attacker detonated a bomb as Pakistan’s interior minister finished speaking at a meeting in the country’s northwest on Saturday, killing at least 12 people and wounding the official.

Security guards blocked the attacker as he tried to approach Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao at the public meeting in Charsadda, an intelligence official said. The attacker detonated the bomb moments later.

Mohammed Khan, a police official, said the minister suffered minor injuries and was in stable condition. He was being shifted to a hospital in the nearby city of Peshawar.

Khan said at least 24 people were wounded, at least 10 critically.


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Source: Reuters

Suicide bomber kills 22 in Pakistan, minister hurt

By Kamran Haider
7 minutes ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed
at least 26 people in Pakistan on Saturday and wounded
dozens more, including Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed
Khan Sherpao, a senior security official said.

The blast took place as people gathered around the
minister at the end of a public meeting in Charsadda,
a town 20 km (12- miles) northeast of Peshawar, the
capital of North West Frontier Province.

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Doctors at hospitals in Charsadda and Peshawar said
scores of people had been wounded, and several were
in a critical condition. Several of Sherpao's security
detail were among those killed and police said they
had found the torso of the bomber.

"Twenty-six bodies have been counted, but the toll
is likely to rise," a senior security official said.

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