Two Chitralis injured in Kohat suicide attack

KOHAT: Two Chitralis were among the 10 security personnel injured in the suicide attack on a convoy of security personnel in Hangu on Saturday. However, the identities of the Chitralis could not be ascertained. The attack left 21 security men dead and about 40 others injured.

"A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into our check-post close to a police station in Doaba,” a security official said. “We suffered the most casualties.”

Some officials said the bomber had rammed his vehicle into a Thall-bound military convoy in Doaba, on Hangu-Parachinar highway. They said 11 vehicles, which were part of the convoy, had been destroyed in the attack, which happened not far from the army camp. The military, however, denied its convoy had been hit.

Eyewitnesses said security forces cordoned off the area and blocked the Kohat-Parachinar highway at Doaba and nobody was allowed to go near the scene of the explosion.