Two women and a child were killed on Wednesday when a bomb ripped through their vehicle in Khyber Agency, officials said. The blast took place on the outskirts of Bara, a main town of the agency. “At least two women and a child were killed and five others were injured in a bomb blast,” Khyber’s administrator Mutahir Zeb Khan told AFP.
The bomb was planted on the roadside and detonated remotely as the pick-up vehicle carrying the passengers passed, he said. The target was unclear. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but similar bombings in the past have been blamed on militants linked to the Taliban.