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Suicide attack by TTP militant in northwest Pakistan kills 9 soldiers

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Peshawar, Sep 1 (PTI): A suicide attack by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on a
security forces convoy has killed nine soldiers and injured five others in Pakistan’s restive northwest,
the military said.
A bike-ridden bomber hit the convoy on Thursday in the Bannu district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
province, Inter-Services Public Relations, the military’s media wing, said.
The bomber rammed his bike into a vehicle in the convoy, killing nine soldiers and injuring five
others, the statement said.
The banned TTP has accepted responsibility for the attack.
Following the incident, law enforcers rushed to the blast site and cordoned off the entire area. A
massive search operation was launched to arrest the perpetrators of the blast, it said.
Taking to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar
condemned the attack. He called such acts “utterly reprehensible” and said his thoughts were with
the families of those killed and injured.
Recently, Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorist activities orchestrated by the outlawed terror
outfit.
The TTP was set up as an umbrella group of several militant outfits in 2007.
Last month, two policemen were killed and as many injured when TTP militants attacked a police
checkpoint in the country’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
On January 30, a Pakistan Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up during the afternoon prayers in a
mosque in Peshawar, killing 101 people and injuring more than 200 others.
In February, TTP militants stormed the Karachi Police chief’s office in Pakistan’s most populous city,
sparking gunfire that killed three rebels and four others, including two police constables.
The outfit, which is believed to be close to Al-Qaeda, has been blamed for several deadly attacks
across Pakistan, including an attack on army headquarters in 2009, assaults on military bases, and
the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.
The TTP also orchestrated the heinous Army Public School attack in Peshawar in 2014, in which over
130 students were killed. PTI

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