A suicide attack has killed 13 soldiers and wounded 29, including civilians, in the northwestern province of Pakistan on Saturday, the local government officials and police officials told international news agency AFP.
A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy. The blast killed 13 soldiers, injured 10 army personnel and 19 civilians,” said a local government official in North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The blast has injured 10 military personnel in the suicide attack.
“The explosion also caused the roofs of two houses to collapse, injuring six children,” a police officer posted in the district told AFP.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far, but it is suspected that the attacks may have been carried out by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan TTP. The latest suicide bombing camps have made a surge in militant attacks across Pakistan, particularly in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan regions. Today’s attack is said to be the deadliest attack in a day.
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Pakistan is experiencing a surge in terrorist-related activities in two sensitive provinces, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Militants from the Balochistan Liberation Army had attacked the Jaffar Express passenger train in March, killing 21 passengers and four paramilitary soldiers, according to Global Terrorism Index 2025. Pakistan recorded a 40% rise in terrorist-related deaths, jumping from 748 in 2023 to 1,081 in 2024, placing it second globally in terms of terrorist fatalities.
Pakistan has repeatedly accused India of sponsoring its proxies and terror-related activities in Pakistan. It has also asked its neighboring countries, Iran and Afghanistan, to stop providing shelters to the terrorists who are carrying out attacks in Pakistan from their soil.
Approximately 290 people have been killed, mostly security officials, in the attacks since the start of the year by armed groups, according to the international news agency AFP.