Explosion kills 2 children in former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban

By The Capital

On 14 Nov 2024 15:27:24

Explosion kills 2 children in former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban

A powerful explosion ripped through a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban

A powerful explosion ripped through a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban onThursday, killing at least two children and wounding some others, police said.

Police were still investigating what caused the blast including whether someone was handling explosives to make bomb, local police chief Irfan Khan said.

The blast happened in Mir Ali, a city in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which borders Afghanistan and where Pakistani Taliban and other insurgents often target security forces with suicide bombings and other violence.

The Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, are separate from the Afghan Taliban but have been emboldened by the group's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021