Three tribesmen died and ten were injured on Thursday due to an explosion in the northwestern tribal region of Orakzai.
The blast occurred at Lower Orakzai’s Hasanzai bazaar. The nature of the explosion had not yet been ascertained and the target of the attack was also unclear.
The area was the original base of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud before he moved to South Waziristan to take up the Taliban leadership after the death of his predecessor, Baituallah Mehsud. Unlike the six other tribal agencies, Orakzai does not border Afghanistan.
