IED event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mali Khel area of Jani Khel in Bannu District area, Pakistan on Thu 31st August 2023

At least nine soldiers were killed and 20 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up on a military convoy in Mali Khel area of Jani Khel in Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on August 31, reports The Khorasan Diary. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), among the nine soldiers included Naib Subedar Sanobar Ali, while five troops were injured in the attack added Geo TV. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction of Tehreek-e- Taliban Pakistan (TTP), through its propaganda wing, Al Amar Media from North Waziristan, said that an affiliated cell of the group, identified as ‘Sufyan Karawan’ carried out the suicide attack, added The Khorasan Diary. “This was revenge for the killing of one of our affiliate Abdur Razaq the father of Maulana Shahbaz Janikhel” said the statement by a ‘spokesperson’ who identified himself as Toray Dawar. He identified the suicide bomber as Dewana Latakwal.