Police and security forces rushed to the scene and sealed off the area (representative)
Peshawar:
On Thursday, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Pakistani security forces vehicle near a dysfunctional airport in rebel-held Khyber Pakhtanqua province, with no casualties, officials said.
Explosives wrapped around the body of the bomber detonated with a loud noise near Bannu airport on the border with northern Waziristan. The airport has been non-functional for several years.
Officials said there were no casualties in the attack.
Police and security forces rushed to the site of the blast and sealed off the entire area. A search operation was also launched to arrest the perpetrators of the explosion.
Five terrorists from the Pakistani Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) were killed Thursday after the Balochistan Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) conducted an operation in the Agberg district of the troubled Balochistan capital Quetta.
In a statement, the CTD said it also killed eight members of the TTP and IS during two intelligence operations in the Quetta and Washak districts on Saturday. The two operations brought the number of TTP and IS terrorists killed in the state this month to 13, according to the counter-terrorism police.
Recently, Pakistan has been hit by a series of terrorist activities organized by illegal terrorist organizations.
Founded in 2007 as an umbrella organization for several terrorist organizations, the TTP is believed to be akin to Al-Qaeda and is believed to have carried out several deadly attacks across Pakistan.
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