(2 Jul 2025)
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Bajaur, Pakistan - 2 July 2025
1. Various of vehicle destroyed by roadside bomb
2. People gathered outside Bajaur district hospital
3. Ambulance arriving at hospital
4. Various of victims being taken for treatment
5. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Muhammad Amjad, Rescue team leader:
"We have shifted in total 13 people, three of them referred to Peshawar for further treatment, so far four of them have been martyred, and eight wounded are admitted here in the local hospital."
6. Various of security officials being escorted into hospital
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Gul Afzal Khan, Local political worker:
"This was a very sad incident, in which we have lost our brave local administration officials. But my concern is I have seen in a social media video that terrorists were walking around in the nearest village of Kalan, and they were making videos. So where was the government, and what measures has the government taken to stop them?"
8. Various of mourners gathered around coffins
9. Various of mourners including officials offering funeral prayers
STORYLINE:
A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying a government administrator in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, killing at least five officers and wounding 11 others, police said.
The bombing occurred Wednesday in Bajaur, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Among the dead was government official Assistant Commissioner Faisal Sultan, according to the district police chief, who added that the victims were transported to hospital, where several were listed in critical condition.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but police said the blame is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban.
The group, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, often targets security forces and civilians in the region and elsewhere in the country.
TTP is a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in neighboring Afghanistan in August, 2021, as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout from the country after 20 years of war.
Many TTP leaders and fighters have found sanctuary in Afghanistan and have even been living there openly since the Taliban takeover, which also emboldened the Pakistani Taliban.
AP video by Qais Khan
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