Kurram Agency: Political administration Tuesday said that as many as six people, including three women, lost their lives when a roadside bomb blew off near their car in the Maqbal area of Kurram Agency.
Another person was injured in the explosion near the Pak-Afghan border, the political administration said.
A number of soldiers and civilians have lost their lives in IED blasts in the agency.
At least four security officials, including a captain, were martyred and three injured in an IED blast in Kharlachi, Kurram Agency, in October last year.
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has strongly condemned the blast in Kurram Agency.
He expressed deep grief over the loss of precious human lives and extended heartfelt sympathies to the heirs of those who lost their lives.
Published in Daily Times, January 31st 2018.