Sources say explosive device was reportedly planted on motorcycle to target a Taliban commander, who fled unhurt
\nPesahwar
\nAt least four people were killed in a bomb explosion near a hospital in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s South Waziristan on Friday.
\nSources reported that the blast occurred near City Hospital on Karikot Road in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan.
\nInitial information from hospital authorities confirmed the death of four people in the explosion. The explosive device was reportedly planted on a motorcycle and targeted the vehicle of Taliban commander Ainullah, who escaped unhurt, according to sources.
\nKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Faisal Karim Kundi here Friday strongly condemned the killing of two persons in a motorcycle blast in South Waziristan tribal district and expressed sympathies with the victims\u2019 families.
\nThe Governor expressed profound grief and sorrow over the loss of precious lives and prayed for eternal peace of the victims besides speedy recovery of the injured.
\nThe Governor said that he equally shared the grief through which the victims\u2019 families were passing through and said that killing innocent people was the enemy of humanity.
\nOn Wednesday, an explosion-triggered collapse of a large part of Jamshoro police station left five policemen and a suspect in the lockup injured.
\nThe police officers believe that the simmering temperature caused a blast in hand grenades placed in the station\u2019s maal khana [depository] that caved in. However, an inquiry has been initiated to ascertain the actual cause of the explosion.
\nThe injured include ASIs Muhammad Bux Dawach and Rasool Bux Narejo, head constable Abdul Lateef Panhwar, constables Ghulam Muhammad and Irshad Ali.
\nJamshed Sanjrani, an arrested suspect, was also hurt in the explosion. All of them were shifted to Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sources say explosive device was reportedly planted on motorcycle to target a Taliban commander, who fled unhurt Pesahwar At least four people were killed in a bomb explosion near a hospital in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s South Waziristan on Friday. Sources reported that the blast occurred near City Hospital on Karikot Road in Wana, the main town of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67530,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67508\/revisions\/67530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}