4 killed in blast targeted at ex-CM of Pakistan
Islamabad, July 13 : At least four people were killed and 32 injured in a bomb blast that was targeted at the convoy of former Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The ex-CM, who was returning from an election rally near North Waziristan, was unaffected by the remote controlled blast in Bannu city, Dawn online quoted a senior police official as saying. The injured were taken to District Headquarter (DHQ) Hospital in Bannu for treatment.
Caretaker Chief Minister Dost Mohammad Khan condemned the incident and summoned an emergency meeting to discuss the security situation.
Durrani is contesting the July 25 general election on NA-35 (Bannu) against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) ticket.
This is the third major attack in the province during election campaigning, Dawn reported. On Monday, Awami National Party (ANP) candidate from Peshawar Haroon Bilour and 19 others were killed in a suicide blast.
The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) owned up the blast. It had also claimed responsibility for a 2012 attack that killed Haroon's father, Bashir Bilour.
Earlier this month, an attack on PTI candidate's office in North Waziristan's Razmak tehsil had injured 10.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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