Suicide bomber targets army convoy in northwest Pakistan | Pakistan Taliban News

5 troopers wounded within the assault in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.

At the least 9 troopers have been killed and 5 wounded in a suicide assault on a safety convoy in northwest Pakistan.

The navy mentioned safety forces had cordoned off the realm.

No group instantly claimed accountability for the assault on Thursday within the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Bannu district.

A “bike borne suicide bomber exploded himself” about 61km (37 miles) from the border with Afghanistan, the military’s media wing mentioned.

The rugged border area has lengthy been a hive of militant exercise.

“The suicide bomber was driving a motorbike and he rammed his bike right into a truck in a navy convoy,” provincial minister Feroze Jamal Shah informed AFP information company.

Pakistan’s restive northwest, which borders Afghanistan, has seen an increase in assaults during the last yr since talks between armed fighters and the federal government broke down.

One other suicide bombing at a political gathering in the northwest final month killed greater than 60 individuals.

In January, a suicide bomber linked with Tehreek–e–Taliban Pakistan (TTP) blew himself up in a mosque inside a police compound within the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar, killing greater than 80 officers.