ISLAMABAD – At least seven people were killed and 17 others injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, police said.
The explosion occurred at the office of a local peace committee leader in the Wana Bazaar area of South Waziristan district, local police told Xinhua.
The explosive device was planted and remotely detonated, the police said, adding that the blast caused the office to collapse, trapping several individuals, including a local leader, under the debris.
The injured were immediately shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital in Wana for medical treatment, the spokesperson said.
Rescue operations were underway at the scene, while security forces had cordoned off the area and launched an investigation into the incident, police added.
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