8 killed, 26 injured in suicide bombing in Pakistan

A female suicide bomber in northwestern Pakistan killed at least eight people and wounded 26 more in an attack outside a local civilian hospital on Sunday, local officials said.

The attack in Dera Ismail Khan early on Sunday was claimed by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, often known as the Pakistani Taliban, which is separate from the insurgent movement across the border in Afghanistan.

Gunmen on motorcycles first attacked a police post in the west of the city, killing two policemen early on Sunday, district police chief Saleem Riaz said. The four attackers fled the scene.

Later, a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives when the policemen’s bodies were brought to a government hospital.

“In addition to those killed in the [firing], two policemen and four civilians were killed in the hospital explosion,” Riaz said.

At least 30 people were wounded from the force of the explosion at the District Headquarters hospital, he added.

“About seven kilograms of explosives were used,” Riaz said.

Via Reuters / Al Jazeera 

Photo showing: Girls who were injured when a house, where a wedding ceremony was taking place, collapsed due to monsoon rains, are rushed to a hospital in Orakzai Agency, Pakistan, 18 July 2019. At least eight people were killed and 40 were injured in the incident. EPA-EFE/BASIT GILANI