KHYBER: A roadside remote-controlled bomb blast in Khyber yesterday killed two volunteers of the Amn Committee, DawnNews reported.
Unknown militants installed a remote-controlled bomb at a roadside in Khyber’s Zakakhel area near a barricaded post of Amn Committee.
The bomb went off with a loud explosion. Subsequently, two Amn Committee volunteers were killed.
Following the explosion, security personnel cordoned off the area and a probe into the incident went underway.
Earlier last week, nine people, including three children, were killed and several others wounded when a blast rocked the house of a tribal elder in the northwestern Khyber tribal region.
Khyber is part of Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border.
The Taliban and other Al Qaeda-linked groups, who stage attacks in both countries, are known to have strongholds in the zone.
After suffering for decades due to the fallout of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, today they are again being targeted for a different situation of terrorism.
Amn Committee is a militant group tied to the Pakistan People’s Party and based in Karachi, Pakistan.
It is avowedly a support group for the Pakistan Peoples Party, the ruling party in Pakistan from 2008 till the 2013 elections.
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