Troop, two civilians martyred in Miranshah suicide attack

An army personnel and two civilians were martyred in a suicide attack in Miranshah, North Waziristan on Monday, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.

The military media wing further said that as many as one civilian was also injured in the suicide attack. A suicide attacker struck a security forces vehicle in  the area, said the ISPR in a statement.

A troop Naik Abid, 33, resident of Mansehra and two civilians were martyred in the suicide blast, said the ISPR.

According to police officials, the attacker rammed a rickshaw into the vehicle and blew himself up.

The injured was shifted to DHQ Miranshah Hospital and the blast site was cordoned off by security officials and an investigation was initiated.

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An emergency has been declared in the city hospitals and security is high alter in the town. Security forces reached the spot and cordoned off the area.

On Sunday, armed militants attacked the installation of CTD and took policemen hostages.

As per reports, the terrorists have seized the entire compound of the CTD office while the body of the policeman who was martyred by the firing has been transferred to the police line.

Even after the passage of 17 hours, the terrorists  involved in the Bannu attack are still in the office of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and demanding a safe exit to Afghanistan.

The terrorists who attacked the CTD office in Bannu city yesterday have been demanding a safe exit to Afghanistan via airway.

Roads adjacent to CTD compound and Bannu cantonment have been closed for traffic.

Moreover, earlier this week, at least three people had been killed and five others were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up in Miranshah town.

According to government sources, most of the casualties had been pedestrians in the area.

KP continues to see a surge terrorist attacks, since last month when the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said that they have called off a ceasefire agreed upon with the federal government in June and ordered its militants to stage terrorist attacks across the country.

The TTP, a separate entity from the Taliban in Afghanistan but sharing a similar hardline ideology, have been responsible for hundreds of attacks and thousands of deaths since emerging in 2007.

The government and the TTP had agreed to a truce earlier this year after Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers took a prominent role in brokering peace talks, but negotiations made little progress and there were frequent breaches.