IED event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Miranshah in North Waziristan area, Pakistan on Wed 5th July 2023

Three Security Force (SF) personnel and a child were killed and 10 others sustained injured in a vehicle-borne suicide attack in the Miranshah area of North Waziristan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on July 5, reports Dawn. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the suicide bomber intended to target the security forces’ post, but the assailant was timely intercepted by on-duty soldiers who “prevented a major catastrophe”. The statement said that 41-year-old Naib Subedar Sahib Khan, a resident of Mianwali, 40-year-old Naik Muhammad Ibrahim, a resident of Dera Ismail Khan, and 24-year-old Sepoy Jehangir Khan, a resident of Mardan, were killed. A child along with nine other passengers in a van also sustained injuries in the attack, adding that the injured persons were immediately shifted to Mir Ali hospital — a child, however, later succumbed to injuries. | A paramilitary personnel was killed and another sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near vehicles of the paramilitary forces in South Waziristan District on July 5, reports Dawn. Police said that the paramilitary forces were clearing the road when the IED, planted on a roadside, exploded |