Islamabad, July 26: A bomber has targeted the house of a Pakistani cabinet minister mourning, killing seven people mourning his slain son.
The attack came on Monday when a bomber blew himself up at the home of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the town of Pabbi.
“Seven people, including three policemen, have been killed and 21 injured,” AFP quoted a senior police official as saying.
The attack targeted Hussain’s house as people had gathered there to mourn the assassination of his 28-year-old son Mian Rashid by suspected pro-Taliban militants on Saturday.
The blast took place shortly after Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik had visited to give his condolences over the death of Hussain’s son.
An intelligence official from regional headquarters in Peshawar put the death toll at six.
——-Agencies