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Roadside bomb kills 7, including former mayor, in Pakistan
Original Publication Date: July 18, 2016 2:40AM
Publication Updated: April 28, 2025 12:42AM
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A Pakistani police officer says a roadside bomb has killed seven people in the country’s northwest, including a former mayor.
Gul Fazil says the former official, Adil Khan of the Sheringal area of Dir district, was returning home Monday with six colleagues after attending a tribal council when their vehicle struck the roadside bomb near the village of Badarkani.
Fazil says the force of the blast threw the vehicle into a ditch and killed all seven.
He says Khan led a branch of the Islamic party of Jamaat-e-Islami and had travelled to the council to try to resolve a local dispute.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Roadside bombings are frequent in Pakistan’s volatile northwest. Many such attacks have been claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.
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