{"id":20879,"date":"2023-11-03T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/bomb-blast-near-police-patrol-kills-5-in-kps-dera-ismail-khan-official\/"},"modified":"2023-11-03T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:57:16","slug":"bomb-blast-near-police-patrol-kills-5-in-kps-dera-ismail-khan-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/bomb-blast-near-police-patrol-kills-5-in-kps-dera-ismail-khan-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb blast near police patrol kills 5 in KP\u2019s Dera Ismail Khan: official"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bomb blast targeting police killed five people and injured over 20 others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Dera Ismail Khan on Friday, rescue and police officials said.<\/p>\n

The bomb exploded close to a police patrol in Dera Ismail Khan city, police official Mohammad Adnan said.<\/p>\n

According to him, a vehicle carrying officers of the KP Elite Force was targeted. Adnan added that it was not immediately clear if the incident was the result of a suicide attack or a bomb planted nearby.<\/p>\n

Rescue official Aizaz Mehmood said five people were killed and another 21 suffered wounds, but he was not able to provide a break-up of police and civilians.<\/p>\n

The injured persons and bodies have been shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital Dera Ismail Khan.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar strongly condemned the blast and extended condolences to the grieving families, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n

The premier instructed relevant authorities to provide the best medical facilities to the injured. He said the war against terrorists would continue until terrorism was completed eradicated in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to the sacrifices of the law enforcement agencies, we have been thwarting the evil intentions of terrorists,\u201d the PM added.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in terror activities in recent months, especially in KP and Balochistan, after the TTP ended its ceasefire<\/a> with the government in November last year.<\/p>\n

On Oct 31, a policeman was martyred<\/a> after unknown militants opened fire on a police camp in Dera Ismail Khan. That same day, two soldiers were martyred in an IED blast in South Waziristan district.<\/p>\n

In July, as many as 12 soldiers<\/a> of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom in separate military operations in the Zhob and Sui areas of Balochistan.<\/p>\n

That was the military\u2019s highest single-day death toll from terrorist attacks reported this year. Before this, 10 personnel were martyred in a \u2018fire raid\u2019 in Balochistan\u2019s Kech district in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Last month, data compiled<\/a> by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) said the number of militant attacks in August was the highest tally for monthly strikes in almost nine years.<\/p>\n

There were 99 attacks across the country, the highest number in a single month since November 2014, the report had said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bomb blast targeting police killed five people and injured over 20 others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Dera Ismail Khan on Friday, rescue and police officials said. The bomb exploded close to a police patrol in Dera Ismail Khan city, police official Mohammad Adnan said. According to him, a vehicle carrying officers of the KP Elite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t