ISLAMABAD: Two people were killed and at least 20 wounded yesterday in a foiled car bomb attack on a military camp close to a key road tunnel in Pakistan’s violence-plagued North-West Frontier Province, officials said.
The incident occurred near the lawless town Darra Adam Khel, 45 km south of the provincial capital Peshawar, as paramilitary troops fired at a pickup truck that failed to heed warnings to stop at a cordon.
“The gunfire detonated explosives packed in the vehicle, killing the suicide bomber,” a military spokesman said, adding that flying debris and shrapnel wounded around 20 Frontier Corps troops guarding Kohat Tunnel.
A local security official in the semi-tribal district said two passers-by also died in the blast.
