Bomb blast targeting MMA electoral candidate Akram Durrani leaves 4 dead

At least four people were killed and 32 others were injured in a bomb blast near the motorcade of former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Akram Khan Durrani in Bannu today on Friday. Durrani, who is MMA candidate against PTI chief Imran Khan in election was heading back from his campaign rally near North Waziristan, remained safe in the remote control blast.

The District Police Officer (DPO) Bannu Khurram Rasheed said that the injured were taken to District Headquarter (DHQ) Hospital Bannu for treatment, where officials confirmed the death toll had risen to four while 32 injured were undergoing treatment.
Durrani is contesting the election on NA-35 (Bannu) against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on a Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) ticket.
This is the third major attack in KP during electioneering, just days ahead of the general election 2018. On Monday, Awami National Party (ANP) candidate from Peshawar’s PK-78 Haroon Bilour, and 19 others, were killed in a suicide blast.
The attack was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which had also claimed responsibility for 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.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Durrani’s convoy had also been targeted in an attack in 2015 when he was the federal minister for housing and works. His JUI-F is leading member of religio-political parties’ alliance MMA.