Published September 07,2023
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The loss of life toll from a landmine explosion in northwest Pakistan has shot as much as two, whereas 25 have been injured, police mentioned on Thursday.
The incident happened in Shawal space of the restive North Waziristan tribal district that sits close to Afghanistan’s border, when a passenger van carrying laborers hit a landmine on Wednesday.
It follows a “cross-border” assault on Pakistani safety forces in northwestern Chitral district, which borders neighboring Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing not less than 4 military troops and 12 suspected militants.
No group has claimed accountability for the explosion, the newest in a sequence of comparable incidents.
Last month, 13 laborers have been killed and several other others injured in a landmine explosion within the Shawal space.
North Waziristan had served because the headquarters of Pakistani Taliban’s mom group, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan till the group was pushed in direction of Afghanistan following a sequence of army operations within the tribal area since 2014.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
