Tag: Hangu

At least 15 suspects were arrested while a huge cache of weapons was recovered from their passions here on Tuesday, police said. According to details,...

The police have defused a five-kilo gram bomb here on Warasta road, Hangu on Thursday. Hangu police got tip off that some unknown people...

At least 32 people were killed and more than 52 injured in a massive bombing outside a police station in Hangu late on Thursday...

A car bomb blast near Hangu DPO office killed 25 people on Thursday. Kohat DIG Masood Afridi said that several houses collapsed due to...

PESHAWAR - Unknown militants abducted 10 students who were on their way from Peshawar to Parachanar at Bagan near Thall Hangu on Saturday. The officials said at least 10 students from Parachanar were on their way from Peshawar through a passenger vehicle. When the vehicle entered Bagan, a semi-tribal region, it was ambushed by some armed militants who abducted the students to some unknown place. The abducted students belong to Shia community and were going back to homes on spring

PESHAWAR - A suicide car bomb targeting a police station killed five people and injured more than 20 others in Hangu district's Dawaba area on Thursday. The bomber, riding an explosive-laden vehicle, blew himself up near the main gate of the police station, situated around 22 kilometers away from Hangu.
Around 150 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the suicide attack. Deputy Superintendent of Police Meer Chaman Khan told Pakistan Today that five men including a police

PESHAWAR - At least eight people were killed and nine injured when unidentified militants opened fire at a passenger van near Dawaba in Southern Hangu district on Sunday. The police claimed to have killed three militants in a brief encounter that followed the initial assault.
Kohat Commissioner Khalid Khan Omarzai told Pakistan Today that the police had arrested four suspected militants from a hospital in Dawaba early on Sunday and the assault on the van seemed to be in

PESHAWAR - At least five people, including three women, were killed and 10 others injured when rockets fired by the Taliban hit a residential area in Hangu district on Tuesday.
The militants sheltering in the nearby mountainous region had intended to target the security forces' checkpost at Tora Ghundai in the Doaba area but the rockets missed the target and resulted in civilian casualties. According to police officials, three rockets landed in an unpopulated area whereas five

PESHAWAR - Militants fired rockets and bullets on a police patrol van in Balyamina area of District Hangu on Monday, killing at least two policemen including a sub inspector. The ambush left seven policemen injured. The District Police Officer Abdul Rashid Khan told Pakistan Today that militants hiding in mountains fired five rockets on the police when they were passing through a road linking Samana and Orakzai Agency.
The rockets were followed by firing with sophisticated

PESHAWAR: At least 15 people were killed and over 20 injured on Friday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the building of an under-construction hospital in Pass Keley village near Hangu district.
A number of houses, the under-construction hospital and an Imambargah in the vicinity were razed to the ground.
Kohat Commissioner Khalid Omarzai said the bomber drove his explosive-laden pick up into the boundary wall of the hospital in Pass Keley. The

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomb attack near an under-construction hospital on the outskirts of Hangu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed at least 15 people and injured several, private television channels reported on Friday.
Quoting Kohat Commissioner Khalid Omarzai and other police and security officials, the channels reported that the bomb exploded in explosion-laden vehicle. "We cannot say if it was a suicide attack. The blast took place near a hospital," Kohat Commissioner Khalid Omarzai