A former Tehsil Nazim, his son and bodyguard were killed and eight other people wounded on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Swabi, police said.
The bomber targeted Hanif Khan Jadoon as he was sitting in his car after offering his Eid prayer.
“It was a suicide attack. The bomber was on foot. Hanif Jadoon was killed on the spot and his security guard died in hospital,” Mohammad Ijaz Khan, the Swabi police chief, told AFP by telephone.
He later said Jadoon’s son, Ahmed Khan, had also succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Another eight people were wounded, he added.
It was not clear why Jadoon was targeted but police said he was a member of the Awami National Party, which is in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and that could have been a motive.
