The death toll from Sunday’s suicide bombing at a Jamiat UlemaiIslamFazl JUIF gathering in Khyber Pakhtunkhwas Bajaur district rose to on Monday as the Counter Terrorism Department registered a first information report of the attack . Hundreds of party workers along with local leaders were present at the gathering when the blast occurred .
The bomb went off when a party leader was addressing the convention . The explosion occurred at pm near the Shandi area some km from Khar . Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Hassan Azhar Hayat visited the hospital to inquire about the injured and killed in the explosion .
ISK involvement feared according to a Dawn report security officials believed that yesterdays bombing was a suicide attack . The blast drew acrosstheboard condemnations as well as the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif former premier Imran Khan and other politicians also condemned the blast .
Last week a policeman was martyred in a suicide blast inside a mosque in the Jamud area of the northwestern city of Peshawar . In January a suicide bomber linked to the TTP blew up a police compound killing more than more than a police officer in the city of Khar killing himself himself in a mosque inside the city killing himself in the northwestern district of Khybersakhtundundundi district .
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