Bashir Bilour injured in Peshawar suicide attack

KARACHI: Senior Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Bashir Ahmed Bilour has been injured in a suicide bomb attack in Peshawar, the media reported on Saturday.

According to reports, he is critcally injured and fighting for his life following the attack, which left 6 others dead and over 15 injured.

Hospital sources said that Bilour received critical wounds to his chest and stomach.

As reports trickle in, doctors are currently operating on him at the Lady Reading Hospital to save his life.

Sources said that the explosion took place when Bashir Bilour leaving residence along with his personal secretary and SHO Sattar Khan of the Kabuli Police Station, who died in the blast.

The explosion took place at the house of a local ANP leader where a party workers meeting was being held.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have claimed responsibility for the attack.

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