Three people were killed and 23 injured Wednesday when a suicide bomber targeted a police truck in western Pakistan, an attack claimed by the domestic chapter of the Taliban, IgbereTV reports
Tehreek–e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), separate from the Afghan Taliban but sharing a common hardline Islamist ideology, earlier this week called off a shaky months-long ceasefire agreed with Islamabad and ordered its fighters to resume attacks across the nation.
Senior police official Azhar Mehesar told AFP that Wednesday’s blast targeted a security force preparing to escort polio vaccinators in the city of Quetta, and those killed “include a policeman, a woman and a child”.
In a statement, the TTP said a “holy warrior” detonated a car bomb near a customs post to avenge the killing of founding member Umar Khalid Khurasani during the truce
