At least 11 labourers have been killed in an attack in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded under their vehicle, government officials said.
The attack in North Waziristan’s Shawal Valley, 300km (190 miles) southwest of capital Islamabad, was confirmed by Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Security and police officials in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said a suspected IED detonated, tearing through a truck carrying the workers to a construction project in Waziristan district, near the Afghan border.
“They were working at an army post that is under construction … an IED exploded under a vehicle carrying the labourers,” deputy commissioner of North Waziristan, Rehan Khattak, told Reuters news agency.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.
Original from www.aljazeera.com rnrn