According to news sources, four civilians and one security personnel are dead in suicide blast in Khar, Bajaur agency, Pakistan. This suicide blast occurred outside District Headquarters Hospital in the agency of Bajaur which is situated in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Asad Sarwar who is the Assistant Political Agent of this area has confirmed this news. He further told that this suicide attack was carried out by a female bomber. “The suicide attacker was a woman who detonated the bomb outside the main gate of the hospital”.
Many people are wounded in this suicide attack on Saturday 20th April 2013. According to Mohammad Riaz who is the chief doctor at this District Hospital has said, “At least 4 people were killed and four others were wounded in the blast outside the main gate of the hospital”.
According to the Local administration personnel Abdul Hasib, “it was a female suicide bomber, about 18-20 years old, we have found her head and legs”. According to him the dead people included a hospital worker, a security personnel and couple of civilians.
No one has accepted the responsibility for this suicide bomb attack yet. Bajaur Agency is included in those seven districts of Pakistan that constitute the Federally Administered Tribal Areas also known as FATA.
The incident is not the first of its kind as previously in the month of December 2010, a woman wearing burqa had exploded herself at the United Nations food distribution point in the same area Khar. In this incident 45 people lost their lives and Taliban accepted the responsibility for the attack.
Female Suicide Bomber Blew Herself in Khar, Bajaur Agency, Killing 5
By Umar Farooq — Published on 20/04/2013
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