PESHAWAR: At least 10 people, including six children, were killed as a landmine hit a passenger van in Gudar area of Central Kurram Agency early Tuesday.
An anti-tank mine was buried on the roadside and hit a pick-up van, a political administration official told The Express Tribune. It was a rutted path in an area that is at a distance, he added.
Thirteen others, including four Khasadar officials, were injured in the explosion. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.
The militarys media wing, Inter Services Public Relations, said a special Mi-17 helicopter has been sent to Parachinar to bring the injured to Peshawar for treatment.
Last month, at least 28 people were killed and 100-plus wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car rigged with explosives outside an Imambargah in a busy marketplace in the main town of Kurram tribal region. The grisly violence sparked angry protests by local residents in Parachinar, the administrative headquarters of the agency, which is prone to sectarian violence. Jamaatul Ahrar, a splinter group of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, claimed credit for the deadly bombing in Parachinar, which came less than two months after a bomb ripped through the main vegetable market in the same city on January 21.
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