Five people were killed and thirty-five injured in a suicide car bombing incident in the Lakki Marwata district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, police and officials said.
The explosion happened after officers signalled a suspect vehicle to stop at a checkpost in the Lakki Marwat district, local police chief Gul Wali Khan told AFP.
The driver ignored the instruction so police opened fire and the bomber detonated his device, he said.
About 40 shops and 10 houses were damaged in the blast.
“We have recovered five bodies so far from the debris,” he said. “The bomber detonated his car. It was a suicide car bomb attack.
The fatalities were all civilians killed when the buildings collapsed, the police chief said, adding that another 35 people were wounded, 10 of them police officials.
5 killed, 35 hurt in Lakki Marwat suicide blast
