Three Paramilitary Officials Killed in Suicide Blast in Pakistan

Five people, including three paramilitary Levies personnel, were killed in a suicide attack in Mohmand Agency’s Ghalanai Tehsil, Pakistan, today. Pakistani media reported that military’s media wing, Inter-Services Inter Relation (ISPR), said in a statement that two civilians were among those killed. Eight others were injured as two suicide bombers tried to enter a compound of the local political administration. When stopped, one of the attackers blew himself up outside the entrance, a senior official told The Express Tribune. The incident comes barely two days after a suicide blast claimed by the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of the banned Pakistan Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) ripped through protesting chemists in front of the Punjab Assembly in Lahore, leaving 13 people dead