PESHAWAR: On Tuesday afternoon, suicide bombers attacked the court complex in Peshawar, Pakistan killing at least 4 people and injuring 14. The attack happened at the north-western town of Charsadda, which is 34 km from Peshawar and the extremist group Jamaat-ur-Ahrar took responsibility for it. The organization took claim in a message to the journalists by their spokesperson Asad Mansoor.
District Police Chief Sohail Khalid said there were three people in total of which at least one of the attackers blew himself up and another opened fire at the main entrance of the court compound before they were shot and killed. The police are still on the lookout for another one.
The three bombers attacked the court in Tangi, the district’s mayor Bahadur Yar told saying, “I am on the spot, the dead body of one bomber is laying outside the main gate of the court complex, the dead body of the second bomber is inside the complex.” “The third attacker managed to enter inside. Police are after him,” he added.
This blast comes following many others that have hampered the lives of general citizens in Pakistan in the recent past. On Thursday, a suicide bomber killed 88 people at a famed Sufi shrine in Sindh province. It remains to be seen how quickly can Pakistan recover from the attack and catch the culprits.
