Suicide attack killed 12 in NW Pakistan, 6 terrorists neutralised

In Pakistan, at least 12 persons, including four children, were killed and 30 injured as two explosive-laden vehicles rammed into the boundary wall of the main cantonment in Bannu in northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday while the army personnel neutralised at least six terrorists. The suicide bombers hit the wall of Bannu Cantonment, about 200 kms south-west of Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the evening around sunset time, police said.
Hafiz Gul Bahadur-affiliated little known Jaish Al Fursan, in a statement, claimed the attack in Bannu and said that dozens of members of Pakistani security forces were killed. There was no immediate comment from the military regarding any casualties.. The group is one of the several factions of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. Muhammad Noman, a spokesman for Bannu District Hospital, said 12 people were killed and 30 wounded in the attack, adding they were all civilians who had been caught under collapsed buildings and walls. At least seven children were among those killed, a hospital list showed.
The attack comes days after a suicide bomber killed six people at an Islamic religious school in Pakistan, attended by key Taliban leaders in the same province. Last year was the deadliest in a decade for Pakistan, with a surge in attacks that killed more than 1,600 people, according to Islamabad-based analysis group the Center for Research and Security Studies.Islamabad accuses Kabul’s rulers of failing to root out fighters sheltering on Afghan soil as they prepare to stage assaults on Pakistan, a charge the Taliban government denies.