Bomb targeting a vehicle carrying police killed 2 officers in northwest Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A almighty weaponry exploded adjacent a conveyance carrying constabulary officers successful northwestern Pakistan connected Sunday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 2 officers and injuring 3 others, constabulary said.

The onslaught happened adjacent a roadside unfastened marketplace successful Peshawar, the superior of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a section constabulary chief, Masood Khan, said.

He said the dormant and wounded were transported to a adjacent hospital.

No 1 instantly claimed work for the attack, but suspicion is apt to autumn connected the Pakistani Taliban, besides known arsenic Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, oregon TTP, who often people information forces and civilians.

TTP is simply a abstracted radical but a adjacent state of the Afghan Taliban, who seized powerfulness successful neighboring Afghanistan successful August 2021.

Many TTP leaders and fighters person recovered sanctuaries and person adjacent been surviving openly successful Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, which besides emboldened the Pakistani Taliban.